Katie in the medals at Baku

Katie Taylor has claimed Irelands third medal at Baku 2015 this morning as the first leg of a treble-chance of additional medals in boxing today, to add to the two already secured.

Taylor beat Swede Ida Lundblad on a unanimous points decision in the womens lightweight quarter-finals.

The Olympic champion taking the honours 40-34 40-36 40-36, and next fights top Azeri Yana Alekseeva in the semi-finals on Friday.

Also this morning, Michael O’Reilly enters the ring for his middleweight semi-final against Aljaz Venko of Slovenia.

Kilkenny heavyweight Darren O’Neill fights Ukrainian Gevorg Manukian for a bronze medal at 10am.

Of the six quarter-finals with Irish interest so far, there have been just two victories, and one of those already with a medal, Brendan Irvine, looks to upgrade to at least a silver in this afternoon’s light-flyweight semi-final against Dmytro Zamotavev of Ukraine.

Of the seven Irish swimmers in action in the pool this morning, all were eliminated, but James Brown in the 200m individual medley and Mona McSharry did score top-20 performances that have them as standby alternates for their semi-finals.

After losing their 3x3 basketball opener to Slovenia 14-10 last night, Ireland’s women need at least one win today to progress. They play Spain and Slovakia.

Badminton top seed Scott Evans beat Hungarian Gergely Krausz 21-16 21-7, while tonight Chloe Magee plays Lianne Tan of Belgium.

Sam and Josh Magee in the men’s doubles take on Florian and Kopriva of the Czech Republic, and in the women’s doubles, Sara Boyle and Rachel Darragh lost in straight sets 21-9 21-9 to Ekaterina Bolotova and Evgeniya Kosetskaya of Russia.