By the third day of competition at the World Championships, Sebatién Michaud has won a bronze in Welterweight after defeating Tonga, Ivory Coast, Australia, and Thailand. He lost in semi-finals to 4-time World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist Steven Lopez (USA).
Dr. Terry Defreitas reports from Beijing:
[Day 2]
Melissa Pagnotta fought against a tough Italian opponent and lost, and Maikol Pinto met Portugual and lost in the last round.
[Day 3]
J.F. Lebreux had several fights and won three, he met Hadi from Iran in the quarter final (World Champion, Olympic gold) J.F. held his own but lost the last round.
Jocelyn Addison had a good day, advancing through 2 fights, but ended up meeting Chinese Tai Pei (World Champion, Olympic Champion).
Ivett Gonda won her first fight and then met up with Spain. She lost in a close match. The Spaniard won gold.
Dasha Peregoudova won against Chinese Tae Pei, then United Emirates. She met Korea in the quarter final. Dasha fought extremely well and was ahead, the Korean went for her head but missed. Then the Korean coach stopped the match and asked for 2 points. The Korean was awarded 2 points and they ended up going into sudden death. The Korean won the sudden death and was in the final, where she got silver.
Sebastién fought extremely well, advancing through the preliminaries, he met Steven Lopez in the semi final. He fought very well against him, but lost the match. BRONZE MEDAL for Canada!
Although at this point we have only one bronze we have made some great advances. We have had 2 women in top 8, one top 8 male, and one bronze.
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