British boxer Lewis Richardson has secured his spot at this summer season’s Paris Video games after beating Puerto Rico’s Angel Llanos Perez on factors within the quarter-final of an Olympic qualifying occasion.
The sunshine-middleweight, 26, needed to attain the semi-finals on the World Qualification Event in Bangkok to assert a spot at Paris 2024.
Richardson was behind with three of the 5 judges after the primary spherical earlier than firing some sensible pictures to get better properly within the second.
The Colchester fighter cruised by the third to earn victory in his fourth struggle in 5 days in Thailand.
Richardson missed out on qualification for Tokyo 2020 and needed to come down from his pure weight after the 75kg class was faraway from the Olympic programme.
“It feels unbelievable,” Richardson informed GB Boxing. “I’ve obtained the golden ticket after placing years and years of onerous work into it and I’m simply actually pleased with myself for making it occur.
“I’ve had a variety of setbacks and I’m so grateful for everybody who has contributed alongside the way in which.”
Richardson is the sixth GB boxer to qualify for the Video games after Charley Davison, Rosie Eccles, Chantelle Reid, Pat Brown and Scrumptious Orie reached Paris.
Nonetheless, Amy Broadhurst’s hopes of becoming a member of them have been resulted in her debut event for Nice Britain after dropping on a break up choice to South Korea’s Oh Yeon-ji within the 60kg division.
The 27-year-old, who received World, European and Commonwealth Video games titles two years in the past, switched to Britain in March after not being chosen within the Eire workforce for the ultimate qualifier.
GB’s light-flyweight Savannah Stubley and featherweight Elise Glynn additionally missed the prospect to qualify for Paris on Saturday.
Stubley was overwhelmed by Kazakhstan’s Nazym Kyzaibay on a unanimous factors choice whereas Glynn misplaced to Mali’s Marine Fatoumata Camara on factors.
