Czechia’s Dorian Kropog and Lithuania’s Arturas Majauckas won the tightest contests at the 21st edition of the Danas Pozniakas U19 Youth International Boxing Tournament in Vilnius, Lithuania on Day2.
Armenia, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, host Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine will be the participating nations in the event.
Boxers who were born in 2008 or in 2009 will be eligible to participate in the next 21st Danas Pozniakas Youth Tournament.
The bout of the day
Czechia’s Dorian Kropog competed already at the 2021 edition of the European Schoolboys Boxing Championships and he had five years of international routine to keep the control against Lithuania’s Jokubas Nedzinskas in the first round. The Lithuanian switched also into a higher tempo in the second round and he impressed in the later parts of their 60kg meeting in Vilnius. The 18-year-old Czech was stronger in several of the exchanges in the decision-making last round and Kropog became the guaranteed medallist.
The surprise of the day
Czechia’s Tomas Glovcik started his international career still back in 2019 when he was only 11-years-old and he competed in several editions of the European Boxing Championships as well. The Czech was not able to keep the control in all of the exchanges against Lithuania’s Arturas Majauckas and he suffered an unexpected loss at the 65kg quarter-final.
The Round-Up
Iceland’s new sensation, Artem Siurkov started his campaign against Estonia’s Aleksandr Silinskii well enough at the 60kg weight class and he joined the quarter-finals in Vilnius. The Icelandic boxer had a harder opponent as second, and Lithuania’s strong Dovydas Kerpe stopped him in the last eight.
Aleksandras Lukaitis raised Lithuania’s flag in the quarter-finals of the 60kg when he stopped Ukraine’s Danil Sidenko after his heavy punches. The next Lithuanian, Simonas Puniskis controlled two out of the three rounds well enough to beat Latvia’s Bogdans Pronins in the fourth quarter-final at the 60kg.
Lithuania’s European Junior Championships competitor Giedrius Bacianskas had the strong strategy against his teammate, Emilis Murauskas and he followed the game plan to beat his opponent. Poland’s Lew Myslowski-Mikos became the next winner in the quarter-finals of the 65kg, he eliminated Estonia’s Matvei Krassohin in a hectic contest.
Latvia’s next boxer in action was Romans Iljins, who controlled all of the three rounds against Ukraine’s Oleksandr Sychevskyi to join the semi-finals of the 65kg. His teammate, Kirils Salkovskis also succeeded in the second day of boxing in Vilnius, he eliminated Lithuania’s Valerij Salomatin at the 80kg quarter-final.
Germany’s No.1 in Vilnius, Dietrich Hermann reached the Top8 at the last edition of the European U19 Boxing Championships in Ostrava and after his success over Estonia’s Daniil Panin, he eliminated Lithuania’s Donatas Bartosevicius in the quarter-finals. Armenia’s European Youth Champion Samvel Siramargyan also succeeded in this 80kg, he bowed out Lithuania’s Vadim Ivanov on Day2.