To be the best, you have to beat the best. This is what the boxer will have to prove. Fatima Herrera in the Paris 2024 Olympic Gameswho advanced to the Round of 16 in the 50kg division and will now face the current Olympic runner-up, Buse Naz Cakiroglu.
In her first fight this Saturday, the San Luis Potosí native won by split decision Laura Fuertes. The Spaniard, bronze medalist at the 2022 World Championships, could not overcome the strength of the Mexican, who won in three rounds with scores of 30-27, 28-29, 28-29, 29-28 and 29-28.
Now the 22-year-old Mexican fighter will face the Turkish Cakiroglu, who in the last edition of the Olympic Games, Tokio 2020won the silver medal after losing in the Final against the Bulgarian Stoyka Krasteva.
When will Fatima Herrera fight again in Paris 2024?
The boxer from Potosí’s fight is scheduled for next Thursday, August 1st at 7:46 a.m. (Central Mexico time). If she wins, she will advance to the Quarterfinals scheduled for Saturday, August 3rd.
If she makes it into the top eight of the category, Herrera could face the American Jennifer Lozano, who was automatically seeded in the Round of 16, just like Cakiroglu. The boxer from Laredo, Texas, and of Latin descent is waiting for an opponent for the fight between Pihla Kaivo-oja from Finland and Margaret Tembo from Zambia.
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