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HUNGARY HEARTBREAK

- Harvey Horn reaches Bocskai final

THE Bocskai tournament took place in Debrecen, Hungary February 8-11. GB light-flyweight Harvey Horn reached the final but was left bitterly disappoint­ed to see the decision and the gold medal go to the host country’s Gavor Virban.

He can however take satisfacti­on from beating Russia’s Ashot Gevorgyan unanimousl­y in the semi-final.

RESULTS

49: HARVEY HORN (England) outpd Burak Yucel (Turkey) 5-0, HORN outpd Ashot Gevorgyan (Russia) 5-0, GABOR VIRBAN (Hungary) outpd Horn 5-0. 51: YANA BURIM (Belarus) outpd Lisa Whiteside (England) 4-1. 52: WILL CAWLEY (England) outpd Cristian Zara (Italy) 5-0, MATT MCHALE (Scotland) outpd Omer Koc (turkey) 3-2, AZAT MAKHMETOV (Kazakhstan) outpd Cawley 4-1, OVIK OGANNISYAN (Russia) outpd Mchale 5-0.

60: ANETA RYGIELSKA (Poland) outpd Lynn Calder (Scotland) 4-1, LUKE MCCORMACK (England) stpd Karol Łapawa (Poland) 1st, OLEXANDR MELENYUK (Ukraine) 4-0 outpd Nathaniel Collins (Scotland) 4-0, KONSTANTIN BOGOMAZOV (Russia) outpd Mccormack 4-1. 64: DMITRI GALAGOT (Moldova) outpd Sean Spence (Scotland) 5-0. 69: YAROSLAV SAMOFALOV (Ukraine) outpd Cyrus Pattison (England) 3-2. 75: JOHN DOCHERT Y (Scotland) outpd Isaac Oroyovwe (Hungary) 5-0, DOCHERTY outpd Aljaz Venko (Slovenia) 5-0, ELŽBIETA WÓJCIK (Poland) outpd Natasha Gale (England) 4-1, ANDREY KOVALCHUK (Russia) outpd Docherty 3-2. 81: THOMAS WHITTAKER HART (England) outpd Vladislav Mikhailov (Urkaine) 5-0, GEORGIY KUSHITASHV­ILI (Russia) outpd Whittaker Hart 5-0. 91: BENCE NAGY (Hungary) outpd Scott Forrest (Scotland) 3-2.

 ?? Photo: ACTION IMAGES/JOHN CLIFTON ?? REPRESENTI­NG: A champion at home, Horn is boxing internatio­nally
Photo: ACTION IMAGES/JOHN CLIFTON REPRESENTI­NG: A champion at home, Horn is boxing internatio­nally

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