Rafael ‘Balita’ LozanoThis Wednesday, national amateur boxing coach, praised the “experienced team” he has put together for the European Games to be held at the end of June in Poland and qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where he hopes “put a boxer at every weight”.
However, Lozano regretted in the statements to EFE the “big cut” he had to make in these Olympics, where “to achieve equality between the women’s weights and the men’s, the male boxers are hurt.” the participating categories were reduced to seven.
The Cordovan technician and ex-boxer considered that “they should have increased women’s categories without hurting” men“as they did in the World Cup” recently held in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), he explained, but the request of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) forced him to “leave the boxers of great creatures.”
The seven boxers who will try to achieve an Olympic place for Spain, where they will have to fight in the final of the competition to be held in Nowy Targ (Poland), are Martin Molina (-51 kilos), José Quiles (-57), Adrián Thiam (-63), Youba Sissokho (-71), Gazi Jalidov (-80), Emmanuel Reyes (-92) and Ayoub Gadfa (+92).
“They all achieved great results at an individual level, such as Olympic diplomas or European and world medals, and I am sure that we will return from Poland with good results, as is happening currently,” Rafael said Lozano at EFE.
Source: La Verdad
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