Twelve women and four men have become the first boxers to guarantee themselves a medal on day four of the ‘World Boxing Cup – Brazil 2026, Foz Do Iguaça’.
On a day of 48 bouts, the second session featured 16 quarter finals, which saw boxers from Spain, Argentina, England, Serbia, Brazil, Australia, Uzbekistan, Mexico, China, Morocco, Turkiye and Norway guarantee themselves at least a bronze medal.
In the women’s light-flyweight (W48kg) competition, Uzbekistan’s number one seed Farzona Fozilova beat Wissal Fakhir of Morocco on a 4:1 split decision and will meet Spain’s Marta Lopez Del Arbol in the semi-final. In the other half of the draw, Fatima Herrera of Mexico stopped Japan’s Yuka Sadamatsu to set-up a semi-final with the Argentinian number two seed Tatiana Flores.
The women’s bantamweight division saw a series of surprises as China’s Yunman Gan scored a 4:1 split decision victory over the USA’s World Boxing Championship bronze medallist, Yoseline Perez while Morocco’s Widad Bertal defeated Polish world number seven, Wiktoria Rogalinksa 3:0.
Yunman Gan will meet England’s Lauren Mackie in her semi-final, after she defeated Canada’s Scarlett Delgado. Bertal will face Sara Cirkovic of Serbia in the other half of the draw following her 5:0 win over Ireland’s 2024 Olympian, Jennifer Lehane.
In the women’s middleweight (W75kg) division, Türkiye’s 2025 World Boxing Championship silver medallist, Busra Isildar, showed her pedigree with a commanding victory over Uruguay’s Marvelis Yriza to guarantee a bronze medal and set-up a semi-final with home favourite Barbara Santos who outpointed Italy’s Melissa Gemini.
In the other half of the draw, Norway’s Sunniva Hofstad maintained her great record in World Boxing Cups to guarantee at least a bronze, with a unanimous win over China’s Yashu Zhu. She will meet the world bronze medallist Emma Sue Greentree in the semi-final after the Australina narrowly outpointed (3:2) Poland’s 2025 World Boxing Champion at heavyweight (W80kg+), Agata Kaczsmarska, who has recently move down to middleweight.
The men’s heavyweight division (M90kg) saw three 5:0 unanimous victories for World Boxing silver medallist Isaias Filho of Brazil, Spain’s Enmanual Reyes Pla and Emrah Yasar of Turkiye. The other quarter final saw Italy’s Dean Nwokedi Chime progress to the next round via a walkover after England’s Teagn Stott pulled out of the competition. The Italian will face Filho in his semi-final, while Yasar and Reyes Pla battle it out in the other half of the draw.
Elsewhere, the schedule saw the round of 16 come to a close in the women’s flyweight (W51kg) and welterweight (W65kg) divisions and the men’s bantamweight (M55kg) and welterweight (M65kg) classes.
The action saw Kazakhstan’s world number one and two progress through to the next round in the women’s classes as Alua Balkibekova (W51kg) defeated Bulgaria’s Zlatislava Chuckanova and Aida Abikeyeva (W65kg) secured a unanimous win over Viktorie Jilkova of Czechia.
The draw, schedule, and all of today’s results are available HERE.
Tomorrow will see 110 boxers compete to guarantee a medal in 55 quarter final bouts. The first session will feature action in the women’s flyweight (W51kg) and welterweight (W65kg) categories. The men will face off at flyweight (M50kg), welterweight (M65kg), middleweight (M75kg), light-heavyweight (M80kg) and super-heavyweight (M90kg+).
In the evening session the women will compete at featherweight (W57kg), lightweight (W60kg) and light-middleweight (W70kg) while the men box for a medal in the bantamweight (M55kg), lightweight (M60kg) and light-middleweight (M70kg) divisions. There will be three quarter-finals at cruiserweight (M85kg) where there are seven entries.
The sessions will start at 15:00 and 21:00 local time. All of the action from every day of competition will be livestreamed on the Confederação Brasileira de Boxe YouTube channel, available HERE.
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