Ceire Smith and Michaela Walsh both bowed out of the World Women's Elite Championships on split decisions at the Sports Complex in Ulan-Ude, Siberia early on Tuesday morning.
Cavan flyweight Smith was edged out on a 3-2 split by North Korea’s number one seed Mi Choi Pang in her last-16 fight.
And Walsh was adjudged to have lost 4-1 – 30-27,30-27,29-28,29-28, 28-29 – to Liudmila Vorontsova of Russia in their featherweight bout
Smith had a good first round against Choi Pang, the current World and Asian 51kg champion. The Pyongyang orthodox was on the floor late in the frame but that was ruled a slip.
A pressure fighter, the world number one probably won the second round while neither boxer managed to land a telling blow in the final stanza.
Walsh countered well in all three rounds against the aggression of Vorontsova but four of the five judges leaned toward the busy Ulan-Ude native and former European Youth champion.
Lightweight Amy Broadhurst meets Poland's Aneta Rygielska in a last 16 contest on Wednesday while Cork welterweight Christina Desmond takes on Myriam Da Silva from Canada in the same session.
Losing is hard especially on a split decision. I believe that I am the best in the world&come Tokyo2020 I will prove it. In life there are bad&good times, never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons. 2020 I'm coming pic.twitter.com/VbKkTe1ofa
— Michaela Walsh (@michaelaw57) October 8, 2019
