European Boxing Championships: Chantelle Reid, Damar Thomas & Abdul Burton assure medals after reaching semi-finals

Great Britain are assured no less than three medals on the European Boxing Championships in Bulgaria after Chantelle Reid, Damar Thomas and Abdul Burton reached the semi-finals.

Reid cruised to a 5-0 win over Ireland’s Evelyn Igharo in a ladies’s light-middleweight contest on the Asics Arena Sports Hall in Sofia.

The 28-year-old Commonwealth Games silver medallist will face Serbia’s Milena Matovic within the final 4 on Wednesday.

Thomas gained by the identical margin in a males’s super-heavyweight struggle towards Georgia’s Nikoloz Begadze and the 21-year-old will tackle Mahammad Abdullayev of Azerbaijan within the semi-finals.

Burton, 20, beat residence favorite and Olympic bronze medallist Javier Ibanez 3-2 to safe a gathering with Turkey’s Semih Gumus.

“Sometimes you’ve got to dig in and when issues went towards me I needed to get caught in and present who I used to be,” Burton mentioned.

“I’m younger, hungry and right here to take over.”

Lauren Mackie, Amy Broadhurst, Callum Makin and Oladimeji Shittu are all due in quarter-final motion on Wednesday, however over half of Britain’s squad of 15 are actually out.

On Tuesday, flyweight Ruby White was crushed 3-2 by Olympic silver medal winner Hatice Akbas of Turkey whereas Emily Asquith suffered a 5-0 defeat in her light-heavyweight bout with Ireland’s Lisa O’Rourke.

In the lads’s heavyweight division, Commonwealth Games champion Isaac Okoh bowed out with a 3-0 defeat by Germany’s Kevin Lebowski.