McGoldrick eliminated

ByEurosport

Updated 29/09/2011 at 14:33 GMT

Commonwealth champion Sean McGoldrick was again beaten by Turkish nemesis Furkhan Memis as he failed to progress beyond the first round at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Baku.

Sean McGoldrick of Wales holds his silver medal in the Bantam weight 56kg final boxing match during the medal ceremony at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi October 13, 2010

Image credit: Reuters

Bantamweight McGoldrick also lost to Memis at this year's European Championships and again come off second best in a tense and always close encounter.

Memis nudged ahead after the first round but McGoldrick, awarded the gold in Delhi last year after Sri Lanka's Manju Wanniarachchi failed a drugs test, levelled the scores coming into the final round, before going down 12-10.

British welterweights Scott Cardle and fourth seed Fred Evans start their campaigns on Thursday against France's Alexis Vastine and New Zealand's Ricky Murphy respectively.

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