PARIS : Defending super heavyweight champion Bakhodir Jalolov was drawn in the same quarter as Australian Teremoana Junior after the draws for the boxing tournament at the Paris Olympics were made at the North Paris Arena on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Boxing - Men's Super Heavyweight - Final - Kokugikan Arena - Tokyo, Japan - August 8, 2021. Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan celebrates his win against Richard Torrez of the United States REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo
The pair are set to renew their rivalry in the quarter-finals, which Teremoana has said he is intent on winning.Another promising name in the category is Britain's Delicious Orie, who will be taking on Armenian Davit Chaloyan - the 2021 world silver medallist - in the preliminaries. Rio Olympics light flyweight gold medallist Hasanboy Dusmatov meets Puerto Rico's Juanma Lopez in the second round of the flyweight category.
Elsewhere, welterweight boxer Busenaz Surmeneli, who clinched Turkey's first-ever boxing gold in Tokyo, could meet world championships silver medallist Imane Khelif of Algeria in the semi-final.
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