BRETT MCGINTY hopes his hard work will pay off in St Petersburg with the St Johnston man starting his bid for World glory tomorrow.
The Oakleaf ABC welterweight faces Kiattisak Promchuay of Thailand in his opening bout tomorrow in Russia.
Adnreu Csemez of Slovakia – a European Youth bronze medal winner – awaits the winner of the McGinty-Promchuay fight in the last 32.
Eight-time Irish champion McGinty is the Irish captain and makes no secret of his desire to win big in what is the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games silver medalist’s first World Championships.
[adrotate group=”85″]“This is a whole new world for me,” he says.
“I’ve been to four European Championships and thankfully they stand to me. It’s a big difference from Europeans to Worlds.
“There are a lot of other countries in the mix. When you go to the Europeans, you’re looking for the Russian, but now it’s a whole new ball game with the Russians, Kazaks, Cubans and Uzbekistan are in there now.
[adrotate group=”38″]McGinty describes his preparation as being ‘exceptional’. The Irish team were in two training camps, one in Dublin and one in Jordanstown, before they left for a training camp in Moscow.
The grind is gruelling – but he hopes it’ll be worth it over the next week.
He says: “It’s tough. Every day, you get up for an eight o’clock weigh-in and you nearly run back to the bed to get a quick half-an-hour before you go for a morning run or a strength and conditioning session.
[adrotate group=”46″]“ Hopefully when I’m standing on the podium in St Petersburg it’ll be all worth it.
“A European medal was great and a Commonwealth medal was even better. Who can top a World medal? There aren’t many other Donegal men, apart from Jason Quigley, who have been on the podium at the Worlds.”
Listen to the full interview, conducted during the recent training camp in Jordanstown, below …
https://soundcloud.com/donegalsporthub-club-notes/brett-mcginty-before-world-championships
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