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Preview of the Strandja Tournament which began Monday evening in Sofia
by Michael O'Neill
February 23, 2015
     
   
   

(FEB 23) Here on WBAN we have brought you news of Team USA and also of the British and Irish squads for Strandja and we will be keeping you informed of news from the women’s bouts ‘as and when’ we receive it.

Team U.S.A. Boxing will update us on the American team’s performances and as reported here on WBAN (21 Feb), five of USA Boxing’s elite women traveled across the globe last Wednesday for the 66th annual Strandja International Boxing Tournament, February 24-28, in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Flyweight Virginia Fuchs (Kemah, Texas), bantamweight Christina Cruz (New York, N.Y.), lightweight Mikaela Mayer (Los Angeles, Calif.), light welterweight Rashida Ellis (Lynn, Mass.), and middleweight Tika Hemingway (Pittsburgh, Pa.) will all compete in the first international tournament of the year for Team USA’s female boxers.

The 1st Strandja Memorial was held in 1950 when host nation boxers won all of the titles on offer.

Strandja encouragingly has five women’s weights yet the Olympic in 2016 still only three. Ours is not to reason why though one possibility is to ensure adequate practice in anticipation of the European Olympic Committee’s (EOC)/EUBC promoted

inaugural European Games in Baku June 16/27

So how does the AIBA’s communication team rate this year’s women's events in Strandja?

This is their take on the 2015 Strandja Memorial tournament:

“China’s three-time AIBA Women's World Champion and London 2012 Olympic Games silver medallist Ren Cancan returns to the world of boxing in this tournament, where 250 men’s and women’s boxers from 37 nations are registered to compete.

The Tension and the Drama:

Kazakhstan’s Nazym Kyzaybay, Bulgaria’s Stanimira Petrova and Panama’s new sensation Atheyna Bylon all won gold medals at the 8th AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Jeju, Korea last November, and following those excellent performances they will be in action in Sofia.

The key question is, can these boxers continue their dominance across their weight categories?

Also, the home Bulgaria boxers are able to compete at a high level in front of their supportive home fans.

The most anticipated battle in the event:

A mouth-watering clash could take place between Panama’s Atheyna Bylon and Canada’s three-time AIBA Women’s World Champion Mary Spencer.

Bylon shocked the world in the last edition of the AIBA Women’s World Championships, but this time she will be fighting at the Olympic Middleweight class (75 kg) in Sofia.

Spencer is a highly decorated champion in her own right, and their styles would gel well if they were to fight.

Ones to watch in the event:

China’s three-time AIBA Women’s World Champion and London 2012 Olympic Games silver medallist Ren Cancan has been a member of their national team since 2007, and recently decided to return to the world of boxing.

The 27-year-old has received the right to prove she is still a world class athlete in the Flyweight class (51 kg) which is an official category of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as well.

Her main rivals will be Bulgaria’s EUBC European Women’s Continental Champion Stoyka Petrova and Kazakhstan’s Nazym Kyzaybay in Sofia.

Uzbekistan’s Bektemir Melikuziev won the gold medal at the 2014 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships and at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.

Following those youth successes, he has turned to the elite level, and claimed the gold medal in the Uzbek National Championships some weeks ago.

The 19-year-old Middleweight class (75 kg) boxer could be a star in 2015 and his first step will be the Strandja Memorial Tournament where he can fight against top opponents.

Facts of the Strandja Memorial Tournament:

Altogether, 250 boxers are registered to take part in Sofia, where 174 male athletes from 32 countries and 76 women from 26 nations have entered.

The total number of the participating countries is 37 according to the official entry list which would be a record in the history of the event, if all take part.

Sofia will be also hosting the upcoming EUBC European Confederation Continental Championships in August following their excellent organization in recent years.

The tournament has scheduled five women’s and ten men weight classes, and China, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Thailand and Uzbekistan will be representing the Asian region in the Strandja Memorial Tournament while Brazil, Canada, Dominica, Panama and United States of America will be there in the event from the American continent, and Seychelles represent Africa.

History of the event:

The first edition of the Strandja Memorial Tournament was held in Sofia in 1950 when all of the winners were boxers from the host nation.

Further Bulgarian cities such as Yambol, Plovdiv, Pleven, Pazardjik and Gabrovo also hosted the Strandja Memorial Tournament over the past two decades but the event returned to Sofia in 2012.

In the last edition of the event, Bulgaria, China, Ecuador, England, Netherlands, Russia, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Wales won the gold medals in Sofia.

Titleholders of the event:

Women’s 51 kg: Stoyka Petrova, Bulgaria
Women’s 60 kg: Denitsa Eliseeva, Bulgaria
Women’s 75 kg: Maxine Koelemeij, Netherlands

 
     
     
   
 
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