Michaela Walsh and Kellie Harrington eye history in Sofia

Michaela Walsh and Kellie Harrington chase history in today’s European Elite Women’s semi-finals in Sofia.

The Belfast and Dublin fighters will be aiming to upgrade their guaranteed bronze medals to at least silver versus Russia’s Daira Abramova and Finland’s Mira Potkonen, respectively, and become the first Irish women apart from Katie Taylor to reach a European Elite decider.

Harrington meets Potkonen, who beat Taylor at the Rio Olympics, in a repeat of the 2017 EU final which the Finn won. Walsh is against Abramova who beat Potkonen in the 2016 European lightweight final but has since dropped down to feather.