GB entrants for National Amateur Championships are announced

The GB Boxing Performance Programme has announced its entrants for next month’s National Amateur Championships 2019.

As the highest ranked boxers in their respective weight divisions in the country, each of the 10 boxers (four women and four men) will assume the position of number one seed.

The GB boxers receive byes until the quarter-final stages, which are staged in at Nottingham’s Harvey Hadden Sports Village on Nottingham on Saturday 6^th April (preceded by the pre-quarters on Friday 5^th April and followed by the semi-finals on Sunday 7^th April).

England Talent boxers will announce their seed nominations – who become number two seeds – following the completion of regional qualifying tournaments around the country.

Where there is no GB boxer in a weight classification, then the England Talent boxer chosen will become the number one seed.

The standalone Finals Day of the National Amateur Championships will be staged in Manchester on Saturday 13^th April.

The GB selections are:

Women

51kg Tori-Ellis Willetts, 57kg Karris Artingstall, 60kg Hannah Robinson, 75kg Georgia O’Connor.

Men

52kg Kiaran MacDonald, 60kg Thomas Hodgeson, 69kg Harris Akbar (pictured), 75kg Mark Dickinson, 81kg George Crotty, 91kg Lewis Williams.