BBC News
Aug 24 2004
Zou wins medal for China
Boxing results in full
Zou Shiming claimed China’s first Olympic boxing medal by beating
Armenia’s Aleksan Nalbandyan 20-12 in the light flyweight
quarter-finals.
Zou now faces Yan Bhartelemy Varela in Friday’s semi-finals, the
Cuban having outscored South Korea’s Hong Moo Won.
Russia’s Sergey Kazakov beat Namibia’s Joseph Jermi 18-11 and fights
Turkey’s Atagun Yalcinkaya in the last four.
Zou defeated Bhartelemy Varela at last year’s world championships in
Bangkok and went on to win a silver medal.
Yalcinkaya outpointed Italy’s Alfonso Pinto 33-24.
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