Three GB-based boxers qualify for Paris Olympics

British boxers Pat Brown and Chantelle Reid secured a quota spot for the Paris 2024 Olympics on the final day of the world qualification tournament.

Team-mates Owain Harris-Allen and Kiaran MacDonald are set to fight in the evening session in Italy on Monday.

Meanwhile, Bolton-based Cindy Ngamba became the first ever boxer in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee team to reach the Olympics.

The 25-year-old was born in Cameroon and moved to the UK aged 10.

Middleweight Ngamba is yet to be granted a visa and UK citizenship, and without a British passport she cannot represent Team GB at the Olympics, but earning one of 70 IOC refugee athlete scholarships kept alive her hope of fighting in France this summer.

She then claimed a stoppage victory over Kazakhstan's Valentina Khalzova in the women's 75kg quarter-finals - enough to book a place in Paris as four Olympic berths were available in that category.

"It's emotional," she said. "I want to thank God, the GB boxing team and the refugee team.

"If it wasn't for the refugee team I would have turned professional or gone on a different journey. They stuck with me and welcomed me like a big family."

Ngamba's training partner Reid claimed one of the other middleweight berths with victory over Uzbekistan's Aziza Zokirova, and having secured their spots, the four quarter-final winners were not required to box again.

Brown is also looking forward to Paris after beating Poland's Mateusz Bereznicki in the men's heavyweight quarter-finals.

"I've been dreaming of this since seven years of age and I first went to a boxing gym," he said. "It means the world to show kids in amateur boxing clubs that anything is possible."