The first week of the Olympics was mostly free of controversy in boxing. This past week proved to be different with questionable scoring being the talk of the sport but now as we enter the last few days of competition, the focus is back to where it belongs: on the boxers and fights themselves. Today, 6 more people punched their ticket to the gold medal match.
The headliner of the day saw Estelle Mossely of France defeating China's Jinhua Yin to become the gold medalist of the 2016 Olympics in the women's lightweight division. It was a close match between the two but Mossely came out as the victor and deservedly so. She made history on her birthday by becoming the first woman to claim an Olympic boxing gold for France, as fiancé Tony Yoka reached the men’s super heavyweight final at Rio 2016.
China, while they were guaranteed 3 medals entering today, lost all of their matches (2 semifinals and 1 final) and so the country does not get a gold medal for the day.
Here is the Olympic boxing results after Day 14:
Men’s flyweight (52kg) - Semifinals
Shakhobidin Zoirov (Uzbekistan) def. Yoel Finol (Venezuela)
Mikhail Aloyan (Russia) def. Jianguan Hu (China)
Men’s light welterweight (64kg) - Semifinals
Fazliddin Gaibnazarov (Uzbekistan) def. Vitaly Dunaytsev (Russia)
Lorenzo Sotomayor (Azerbaijan) def. Artem Harutyunyan (Germany)
Men’s super heavyweight (91+kg) - Semifinals
Tony Yoka (France) def. Filip Hrgović (Croatia)
Joe Joyce (Great Britain) def. Ivan Dychko (Kazakhstan)
Women’s middleweight (75kg) - Semifinals
Claressa Shields (United States) def. Dariga Shakimova (Kazakhstan)
Nouchka Fontijn (Netherlands) def. Qian Li (China)
Women’s lightweight (60kg) - FINAL
Estelle Mossely (France) def. Jinhua Yin (China)
