FILE–Nesthy Petecio hasn’t relinquished her dream of one other Olympic stint. —POOL PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines–Nesthy Petecio has been madly harping continuous on a projected return to the Olympics.
The Filipina boxer’s want is now realistically inside grasp after transferring over to the ladies’s 57kg semifinals of the World Qualification Event on Monday in Busto Arsizio, Italy.
“Another to go for the golden ticket to Paris,” wrote Petecio on Fb after a unanimous determination win over Maud van der Toorn of the Netherlands.
Solely two slots to the 2024 Paris Olympics can be found in Petecio’s weight class, that means she has to get previous Turkey’s Esra Yildiz within the semifinals on Tuesday to advance to the finals and safe an Olympic berth.
The 31-year-old Petecio, an Olympic silver medalist throughout the 2020 Tokyo version, utilized her huge expertise reverse the 18-year-old Toorn to grab management within the final two rounds after falling behind within the scorecards early.
Whereas Petecio gained all of his 4 bouts, the 10-man Philippine boxing received decimated additional when Carlo Paalam and Rogen Ladon misplaced their bouts.
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Paalam, additionally a silver medalist throughout the Tokyo Summer season Video games, was pressured to desert his match with lower than a minute within the second spherical over the last 16 of the boys’s 57kg reverse Shukur Ovezov of Turkmenistan.
“Sadly, I sustained an harm in my final match that has not absolutely healed, and throughout the course of the battle, it grew to become obvious that persevering with would threat additional injury,” wrote Paalam on Fb.
The 25-year-old pleasure of Talakag, Bukidnon was thrown exhausting to the canvas within the third spherical of his split-decision victory over Andrey Bonilla of Mexico, hurting his shoulder within the course of.
“As a lot because it pains me to step away from the ring on this method, my well being and well-being should at all times come first,” stated Paalam.
Ladon, the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympian, additionally bowed out in a split-decision defeat by the hands of Kiaran Macdonald of the UK of their males’s 51kg spherical of 16 bout.
Aira Villegas stays in rivalry together with Petecio after progressing to the quarterfinals by defeating Sofie Vinter Rosshaug of Denmark within the girls’s 50kg.
