Taylor to face Chahal at World Championships
Thursday, 9 September 2010 14:52Katie Taylor has been drawn against Neetu Chahal of India in the preliminary round of the 6th AIBA Women's World Championships in Barbados.
The Bray woman, who is targeting her third World 60Kg title on the trot, meets Chahal in the last 32 at the Garfield Sobers Gymnasium in Bridgetown on Saturday.
Taylor's Irish team-mates, Cavan flyweight Ceire Smith, Belfast light-welterweight Allana Murphy and Dublin middleweight Sinead Kavanagh, have been handed tricky draws at the Championships.
Smith meets Nilmini Jayasinghe of Sri Lanka in the preliminaries on Friday, while Murphy, who received a bye into the last 16, is facing the toughest task of the lot, a four-rounder against current World champion Gulsum Tatar of Turkey in the light-welterweight category.
Drimnagh middleweight Kavanagh will trade leather with Wided Younsi of Tunisia in the 75Kg category on Friday.
