By Alexey Sukachev
Russia's national amateur team dominated (male) the European continental championship, which ended this Sunday in Samokov, Bulgaria, winning no less than four gold medals and adding five extra licenses for the 2015 World Championship in Doha, Qatar.
Ireland (2 gold and 1 bronze medals), the UK (1 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze medals) and local hosts from the Bulgarian national team (1 gold and 4 bronze medals) came right after the Russians. Top honours were also won by Lithuania and Croatia. The championship marked a severe fall of once-prominent Ukrainian team, which failed to win any medals at all – just three-to-four years following their massive success in Baku and London.
FINALS
Light Flyweight (108 lbs – 49 kg)
Vasiliy Egorov (Russia) – Harvey Horn (UK) – 3:0 (29:28, 29:28, 29:28)
Flyweight (114 lbs – 52 kg)
Daniel Asenov (Bulgaria) – Muhammad Ali (UK) – 3:0 (30:27, 29:28, 29:28)
Bantamweight (123 lbs – 56 kg)
Michael John Conlan (Ireland) – Qais Ashfaq (Germany) – 3:0 (30:27, 30:27, 29:28)
Lightweight (132 lbs – 60 kg)
Joseph Cordina (UK) – Otar Eranosyan (Georgia) – 3:0 (30:27, 30:27, 29:28)
Light Welterweight (141 lbs – 64 kg)
Vitaliy Dunaytsev (Russia) – Pat McCormack (UK) – 3:0 (30:27, 29:28, 29:28)
Welterweight (152 lbs – 69 kg)
Elmantas Stanionis (Lithuania) – Pavel Kostromin (Belarus) – TKO 1 (2:26 in round 3)
Middleweight (165 lbs – 75 kg)
Petr Khamukov (Russia) – Tomasz Jablonsky (Poland) – 3:0 (30:27, 30:27, 30:27)
Light heavyweight (178 lbs – 81 kg)
Joseph Ward (Ireland) – Peter Mullenberg (Germany) – 3:0 (30:27, 30:27, 29:28)
Heavyweight (201 lbs – 91 kg)
Evgueny Tischenko (Russia) – Igor Pawel Jakubowski (Poland) – Walkover
Super Heavyweight (201+ lbs – 91+ kg)
Filip Hrgovic (Croatia) – Florian Schilz (Germany) – 3:0 (30:27, 30:27, 30:27)