(SPOKANE, WASH.)
– The brackets have been set for the first-ever U.S. Olympic
Team Trials for Women’s Boxing at Northern Quest Resort in
Airway Heights, Wash. All 24 participants took part in the event
draw on Sunday afternoon in the Kalispel Ballroom where the road
to gold was laid out in each of the three Olympic weight
divisions.
Draw Order (Flyweights) - PDF
Draw Order (Lightweights) - PDF
Draw Order
(Middleweights) - PDF
The top four finishers from the 2011 USA Boxing National
Championships entered the tournament as the top four seeds. The
unseeded boxers each drew a ping pong ball to determine her
opening round opponent in the historic event at Sunday’s manual
draw. Olympic Trials action will begin on Monday at the Pend
Orielle Pavilion at Northern Quest with the 12 bouts of opening
round action beginning at 7 p.m. PT.
The winners bracket for the three Olympic weight classes are
attached as well as the bout sheet for Monday’s competition. The
U.S. Olympic Team Trials will be a double elimination tournament
with the boxers who lose their opening round contests on Monday
night dropping into the challengers bracket, which opens action
on Tuesday. The challengers bracket will be released following
Monday night’s action.
U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Women’s Boxing competition can be
viewed online via Universal Sports and the direct links to the
daily broadcasts can be found below and on USA Boxing’s website
at www.usaboxing.org. The champions in each of the three weight
divisions at the Olympic Trials will move on to the 2012 Women’s
World Championships in Qinhuangdao, China, where they will need
to place in the top eight to earn berths in the 2012 Olympic
Games.
USA
Boxing, as the national governing body for Olympic-style boxing,
is the United States’ member organization of the International
Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) and a member of the United
States Olympic Committee (USOC).
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