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Uzbekistan, China Rule Paris Olympics Boxing; Marcial Tokyo Semis Foe Wins Lightheavy Gold


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Hassanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan and China dominated men's and women's boxing in the recently concluded Paris Olympics boxing event.

The Uzbeks won five of the seven golds in the men's bannered by current pros Hassanboy Dusmatov at flyweight and Bakhodir Jalolov at super heavyweight to literally run away with the overall team championships.

China won three of the six golds with two silvers and a bronze in the distaff side to rule women's boxing and finish second to Uzbekistan in the overall standing.

Two of the golds Uzbekistan failed to win in the men's event went to Erislandy Alvarez of Cuba in the lightweight class and to Oleksander Khrishniak of Ukraine in the lightheavyweight division. Khrishniak won the silver in the now defunct middleweights in the last Tokyo Olympics after edging out Eumir Marcial in fhe semis.

On the way to the finals in fhe 80kg class in Paris, the powerful punching Khrishniak beat another celebrated Olympian, defending champion Arlen Lopez of Cuba also in this year's semis.

Aside from Dusmatov and Jalolov, the other Uzbek gold medal winners are Abdumalik Khalokov at feafherweight; Asadkuhya Muydinkhujaev at light middleweight and Lazizbek Mullajunov at heavyweight.

Two of the the golds China did not win in the women's side were won by Lin Yu Tang of Chinese Tajpei at featherweight and Imane Khelifa of Algeria at welterweight who are both at the centers of gender controversy in the Paris Games. Lin defeated Turkey's Julia Szeremeta who beat Nesthy Petecio in the semi finals. The third gold was won by Kellie Harrington of Ireland who beat a Chinese in the final of women's lightweight.

After a hefty harvest of two silvers and a bronze in Tokyo three years ago, the Philippine team went home with just two bronze medals in Paris courtesy of Petecio and flyweight Aira Villegas.

The long time team champions Cuba limped home with just a gold and a bronze. Cuba won top honors in Olympics boxing in Tokyo after finishing second to Uzbekistan in 2016 Rio Games.

USA had just a bronze in men's boxing through welterweight Omari Jones.

The author Teodoro Medina Reynoso is a veteran boxing radio talk show host living in the Philippines. He can be reached at teddyreynoso@yahoo.com and by phone 09215309477.


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