Mykola Butsenko

Ukrainian Anna Lysenko in one-eighth of the Olympic tournament in Tokyo in the 69 kg weight category won by a unanimous decision of the judges over Umaimu Belahbib of Morocco, the African boxing champion of 2017 and the winner of the bronze medal at the 2019 African Games. At the end of three rounds, all the judges gave a score of 30-27 in favour of the Ukrainian.

Oleksandr Khyzhniak (75 kg) won 4:0 over the Slovak Andrej Csemez and went to the quarterfinals of the 2017 World Cup, which is taking place these days in Hamburg. The Slovak boxer worked as a frank second number, and the Ukrainian had to run after his opponent. The next fight Khyzhniak will hold August 29 in the afternoon session against the Englishman Benjamin Whittaker.

Nikolai Butsenko (56 kg) and Ramzan Muslimov (91 kg) won their debut fights at the 2017 World Championships in Hamburg and went to the next round of the competition. Nazar Kurotchin (49 kg) lost to Costa Rican Robinson Rodriguez Castillo with a score of 2:3 and dropped out of the further struggle.

Dmytro Sosnovsky the head coach of Ukrainian national team commented on the European championship which took place in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in June and at which Ukraine won the team competition with 3 gold 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.