KATIE TAYLOR’S unbeaten run stretching back 42 bouts was sensationally ended when she lost to former World champion Sofya Ochigava of Russia in her lightweight (60Kg) semi-final at the Usti na Labem Grand Prix in the Czech Republic yesterday.
Ochigava, who claimed featherweight (57Kg) gold at last year’s European Championships, beat the Bray woman 8-1 over four, two minutes rounds.
The Russian also claimed the boxer of the tournament award in the Ukraine.
The last time that Taylor, the reigning World, European and EU champ, lost was to Turkish puncher Gulsum Tatar in the Ahmet Comert Cup final in Istanbul on May 13, 2007.
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This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Saturday, March 13, 2010
