Sporting Digest: Boxing

WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS (Tampere, Fin) Semi-finals: Light-flyweight: N Munchian (Arm) bt A Guardado (US); D Petrov (Bul) bt E Tsogtjargal (Mong). Bantamweight A Christov (Bul) bt I Guler (Turk); J Casamayor (Cub) bt V Antonov (Rus). Lightweight: D Austin (Cub) bt T Rafael (Slovenia); L Nicholson (US) bt V Nistor (Rom). Flyweight: K Akhemedov (Uzb) bt M Hassan (Egy) pts; W Font (Cuba) bt D Kelly (Irl) ko 1st. Featherweight: E Carrion (Cuba) bt R Paliani (Geo) pts; S Todorov (Bul) bt M Tudoriu (Rom) pts. Light-welterweight: J Kjall (Fin) bt O Saitev (Rus) pts; H Vinent (Cuba) bt O Urkal (Ger) pts. Welterweight: J Hernandez (Cub) bt A Otto (Ger); V Karpaciauskas (Lith) bt S Gorodnichev (Ukr). Middleweight: A Hernandez (Cub) bt R Joval (Neth); A Kuloglu (Turk) bt V Zhirov (Kaz). Light-heavyweight: J Jacobs (Nigeria) bt R Zaoulitchny (Ukr) decision; R Garbey (Cuba) bt D Brown (Can) pts. Heavyweight: F Savon (Cuba) bt S Allouane (Fr); G Kandelaki (Geo) bt A Avartakian (Armenia). Super-heavyweight: S Russinov (Bul) bt Y Belusov (Rus) pts; R Balado (Cuba) bt J Scott (US) pts.