Olympics Rio 2016: Claressa Shields defends women's middleweight gold title

ByReuters

Updated 21/08/2016 at 18:33 GMT

Claressa Shields defended her middleweight title on Sunday to become the first U.S. boxer in 112 years to win two Olympic gold medals.

USA's Claressa Shields wins gold

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Shields beat Nouchka Fontijn, whose silver medal was the first by a Dutch boxer since heavyweight Arnold Vanderlyde won bronze in 1992, by a unanimous points decision.

Kazakhstan's Dariga Shakimova and China's Li Qian took the bronze medals as losing semi-finalists.

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The last American boxer to win two gold medals was Oliver Kirk, who won both the bantamweight and featherweight titles at the same 1904 St. Louis Olympics, where only U.S. boxers took part.

Shields' victory follows Great Britain's Nicola Adams' title defence in the flyweight category, to make her the first British Boxer to defend their Olympic title since 1924.

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