McCormack (left) beat Walsh (proper) within the ultimate of the 2018 Commonwealth Video games
Workforce GB’s Pat McCormack is assured not less than a silver medal within the males’s welterweight competitors after Eire’s Aidan Walsh pulled out of their semi-final with an ankle harm.
They have been as a result of battle on Sunday however McCormack goes into Tuesday’s ultimate.
A Workforce Eire assertion mentioned Walsh sustained the harm throughout his quarter-final win over Mervin Clair.
Walsh’s bronze medal is Eire’s seventeenth in boxing, greater than 50% of all Olympics medals received by Workforce Eire.
The assertion added: “Walsh had initially hoped to compete and waited to offer himself each alternative to take action. Nonetheless subsequent scans and medical critiques have now dominated out this chance.”
McCormack had overwhelmed the Walsh within the semi-finals of the European qualifiers in June and has additionally loved excessive profile wins in opposition to him within the first spherical of the 2019 World Championships and the ultimate of the 2018 Commonwealth Video games.
