The Olympic boxing draw is in

Muhammad Ali

Light-flyweight

THE draw for the boxing tournament at the Olympic Games was held Thursday (August 4). British light-flyweight Galal Yafai will contest the first boxing bout of Rio 2016 on Saturday (August 6), taking on Cameroonโ€™s Simplice Fotsala. If the GB 49kgs wins heโ€™ll progress to a clash with Cubaโ€™s flashy World champion Joahnys Argilagos on August 8.

Irelandโ€™s Paddy Barnes has a bye in the first round, on August 8 he will bo the winner of Samuel Carmona Heredia (Spain) and Artur Hovhannisyan (Armenia). Americaโ€™s Nico Herndandez gets Italyโ€™s Manuel Cappai on August 6 in their first bout of the tournament.

Flyweight

The USAโ€™s Antonio Vargas boxes host nationโ€™s Juliao Neto on August 13.

GBโ€™s Muhammad Ali gets a bye and then on August 15 boxes the winner of Yoel Segundo Finol (Venezuela)-Leone De Los Santos Nunez (Dominica). Irelandโ€™s Brendan Irvine boxes Uzbekistanโ€™s Shakhobidin Zoirov on August 13.

Britainโ€™s Nicola Adams gets a bye in the first stage.

Bantamweight

Irish World gold medallist Michael Conlan has a bye in the first and then on August 14 goes up against the winner of Aram Avagyan (Armenia) versus Arashi Morisaka (Japan). GBโ€™s Qais Ashfaq has it tough. Heโ€™s drawn against Thailandโ€™s skilled and experienced Chatchai Butdee on August 10. If he gets through that challenge itโ€™s most likely Russiaโ€™s rough, tough Vladimir Nikitin next.

American hope Shakur Stevenson gets a bye and then winner of Brazilโ€™s Robenilson De Jesus versus Algeriaโ€™s Fahem Hammachi.

Lightweight

USAโ€™s Carlos Balderas boxes Berik Abdrakhmanov (Kazakhstan) on August 6. GBโ€™s European gold medallist Joe Cordina is up against Charley Suarez (Philippines) on the same day. Irelandโ€™s David Olive Joyce boxes Andrique Allisop (Seychelles) on August 6. He should be confident of winning that but then it would be Azerbaijanโ€™s Albert Selimov on August 9, a far tougher ask.

Irelandโ€™s Katie Taylor gets a bye. Mikaela Mayer (USA) boxes Micronesiaโ€™s Jennifer Chieng on August 12.

Light-welterweight

On August 10 Gary Russell (USA) boxes fellow American, Richardson Hitchins representing Haiti. August 11 sees Pat McCormack boxing Kazakhstanโ€™s Ablaikhan Zhussupov. He has a tough draw, victory will see him go in with brilliant Cuban Yasnier Toledo Lopez on August 14.

Welterweight

Irelandโ€™s 69kgs Steven Donnelly opens his account against Zohir Kedache (Algeria) on August 7. Britainโ€™s Josh Kelly has Egyptโ€™s Walid Mohamed on August 8, win that though and heโ€™ll have outstanding Kazakh Daniyar Yeleussinov on August 11.

Middleweight

A hard draw for Britainโ€™s Antony Fowler โ€“ former World gold medallist, a fast southpaw Zhanibek Alimkhanuly (Kazakhstan). Irelandโ€™s Michael Oโ€™Reilly gets a bye. The USAโ€™s Charles Conwell boxes Indiaโ€™s Krishan Vikas on August 9.

Elite American Claressa Shields, an Olympic and two-time World gold medallist gets a bye. Savannah Marshall will have to do it the hard way. She boxes Sweden Anna Laurell on August 14 and would then move on to Nouchka Fontjin (Netherlands), who beat at the Worlds earlier this year.

Light-heavyweight

Irish World silver medallist Joe Ward gets a bye, to then box the winner of Serge Michel (Germany)-Carlos Mina (Ecuador) on August 10.

Britainโ€™s Joshua Buatsi takes on capable Kennedy Katende (Uganda) on August 7, if he wins heโ€™d then face Uzbekistanโ€™s Elshod Rasulov, a very good fighter on August 11.

Heavyweight

GBโ€™s Lawrence Okolie will start off against Igor Jakubowski (Poland) on August 6, but victory would then see him go in with Cubaโ€™s Erislandy Savon, who stopped Lawrence earlier this year, on August 8.

Super-heavyweight

Davilson Dos Santos Morais of Cape Verde stands in the way of Britainโ€™s Joe Joyce on August 13.

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