Jack Woolley loses out on bronze medal match by slimmest of margins

Ireland’s Jack Woolley with Adrian Vicente Yunta of Spain. Pic: ©INPHO/James Crombie

Jack Woolley’s Olympic medal hopes are over – for 2024 – after the Tallaght man lost a brilliantly entertaining and savagely close repechage match to Spain’s Adrian Vicente Yunta at the Grand Palais in the centre of the French capital.

The Irishman had lost his first 58kg fight 2-0 in rounds to Gashim Magomedov of Azerbaijan earlier on Wednesday. It meant that his only lifeline at that point would come with a bronze medal repechage – but only if Magomedov made it through to the final.