AIBA World Championship, Armenia

Irish boxer Joe Ward  from the Moat boxing club in West Meath is guaranteed at least a bronze medal at the AIBA World Junior Championships following a second round stoppage of Russian light middleweight Rustam Musaadzhev at the Sports Complex in Yerevan, Armenia today.

Today's win maintains the Irish Amateur Boxing Association-the IABA- remarkable  sequence of having won medals at every international tournament - including the Olympics Games -since the AIBA World Senior Championships at the University of Illinois in Chicago in November 2007 and Katie Taylor world championship.
But while Ward was celebrating there was  disappointment for Chris Mullally and Michael Reilly  after they lost their 63Kg and 66Kg quarter finals.
Mullally was beaten 6-1 by Magomed Abdulamagomedov of Russia and Reilly lost out 8-3 to highly rated Israeli puncher Dan Ahorono.
World Junior Championships Results & Draw Yerevan Armenia May 27th.
May 24th (Preliminary - last 32)
57Kg: Christy Joyce (Ireland) beat Arayik Harutyunyan (Armenia) 7-5
63Kg: Chris Mullally (Ireland) beat Ciga Gignuri (Georgia) 13-6
May 25th (Last 16)
52Kg: Roy O'Carroll (Ireland) lost to Carrazana Ramirez (Cuba) 8-16
May 26th (Last 16)
54Kg: Ryan McKeown (Ireland) lost to Belzhan Amantayev (Kazakhstan) 9-12
57Kg: Christy Joyce (Ireland) lost to Dmitry Kulakov (Russia) 6-17
63Kg: Chris Mullally (Ireland) beat  Ihsan Erdogan (Turkey) 7-2
66Kg: Michael Reilly (Ireland) beat Manuel Osorio (Puerto Rico) 5-4
70Kg: Joe Ward (Ireland) beat Denis Rybak (Kazakhstan) RSC3
May 27th (Quarter Finals)
63Kg: Chris Mullally (Ireland) lost to  Magomed Abdulamagomedov (Russia) 1-6
66Kg: Michael Reilly (Ireland) lost to  Dan Ahorono (Israel) 3-8
70Kg: Joe Ward (Ireland) beat  Rustam Musaadzhev (Russia) RSC2
Semi Finals May 29th
Joe Ward (Ireland) v Ravshanjan Abdunazarov (Uzbekistan)