Barnes eyes complete medal set

Olympic medals, European medals, Commonwealth medals. Paddy Barnes has them all. Only a podium place at the world championships still eludes the Belfast boxer and he is determined that is about to change.

The bid to bag the full set begins today, in Kazakhstan, where the fifth seed meets Serbia’s Milos Baltic in a flyweight class topped by Andrew Selby of Wales.

“The world medal is the one medal I haven’t got and, even before the Olympic Games, as a kid I always wanted to be a world champion,” he said. “Now’s my time to try and do it, please God.”