No medal targets for Zaur Antia at World Championships

Zaur Antia claims he has not set a minimum medals tally for Team Ireland at the World Championships, insisting the squad will maintain their “one-fight-at-a-time” approach to the competition.

Irish head coach Antia leads a five-man team into action in Hamburg where Joe Ward, Seán McComb, Kurt Walker, Brendan Irvine and Dean Gardiner will compete after the squad arrived in the northern German city yesterday.

Boxing gets underway on Friday as Team Ireland look to follow up their impressive performance at the last World Championships in Doha two years ago when Michael Conlan became the first Irish male boxer to ever win a gold medal at the tournament, while Ward (silver) and Michael O’Reilly (bronze) also finished on the podium.