Dreams Of Gold
Saunders' sights on Beijing
COUNTY Durham fighter
Bradley Saunders is just one win
away from a place at next year's
Olympic Games after winning
his final preliminary round fight
at the World Amateur Boxing
Championships in Chicago.
The Sedgefield-born light welterweight
will fight American
Javier Molina for a place in the
quarter-finals tomorrow and,
with no other British boxer having
survived the preliminaries,
a last-eight place will be sufficient
to earn a ticket to Beijing.
Saunders, a former ABA
champion who mastered his
trade at South Durham ABC,
saw off Argentinian Gumersindo
Carrasco Perrera.
The 21-year-old claimed a comfortable
victory over his South
American opponent when the
referee stepped in midway
through the penultimate round
of the four-round contest.
Saunders had already established
a 27-7 lead, but the quarter-
final against a highly-rated
American opponent is likely to
prove considerably more taxing.
The American squad have benefited
from hometown support
in the opening week of World
Championship competition, and
Molina impressed as he strolled
to a 27-10 success over Azerbaijan's
Emil Maharramov in his
final preliminary-round contest.
Sunderland's Tony Jefferies,
the North-East's other representative
in Chicago, will be able to
offer Saunders some tips on
blocking out the raucous US support
after he took on leading
American light Christopher
Downs in the early hours of this
morning.
Jefferies, who comfortably
dealt with Holland's Daniel
Kooij in his opening bout, was
fighting for a last-16 spot in the
light heavyweight division.
10:24am Monday 29th October 2007
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