Lazizbek Mullojonov makes it hat-rick of boxing gold medals for Uzbekistan

LAZIZBEK MULLOJONOV made it a hat-rick of golds for Uzbekistan profitable the 92kg heavyweight competitors.

The 25-year-old beat Cuban-born Azerbaijani Loren Berto Alfonso Dominguez comprehensively over the three-round distance. Mullojonov joins 71kg winner Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev and 51kg winner Hasanboy Dusmatov.

Having beat 4 seeds between them on their option to the ultimate this was anticipated to be well-contested affair. The reality was Mullojonov confronted little menace or hazard to his probabilities of profitable the gold medal.

The Uzbeki appeared the extra highly effective and landed the extra telling photographs in opposition to his opponent who light within the last session.

Primary seed Wu Yu was an excessive amount of for her Turkish opponent (Getty Photos)

Girls’s 50kg primary seed Wu Yu proved too sturdy and too busy for her Turkish opponent and third seed Buse Naz Cakiroglu to win gold for China within the second last of the night at Roland Garros.

The end result left the Turkish nook incensed and with Cakiroglu attempting to calm her coach down regardless of having simply fought in a gold medal match.

Wu was the extra correct along with her raids and flurries and wasn’t afraid to make use of among the tough stuff. And the highest seed was deducted some extent by referee Manuel Vilarino for a punch to the again of the pinnacle within the last spherical but it surely was an accumulation of fouls which led to the penalisation.

Gold medallist Yu, silver medallists Cakiroglu and bronze medallists Nazym Kyzaibay (KAZ) and Aira Villegas (PHI) had been on the rostrum earlier than the ultimate two bouts of the evening.

Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev earned one other gold for Uzbekistan. (Getty Photos)

Turkey have now received three medals within the girls’s boxing competitors because of Cakiroglu’s silver, Esra Yildiz Kahraman receiving a bronze at 57kg and Hatice Akbas profitable silver at 54kg. China have already received gold at 54kg because of Chang Yuan and silver at 60kg courtesy of Yang Wenlu.

Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev received the primary gold medal bout of the evening beating quantity two seed Marco Alonso Verde Alvarez within the 71kg welterweight last open air at Roland Garros in Paris.

After Hasanboy Dusmatov’s win in final evening’s 51kg last Muydinkhujaev earned one other gold medal for Uzbekistan with a intelligent show of motion, steadiness and a left hand which his Mexican opponent couldn’t sustain with within the first two rounds.

Verde got here on sturdy within the third but it surely was too little too late because the 23-year-old Muydinkhujaev received each spherical on each card within the first two classes.

The gold and silver medallists together with bronze winners Omari Jones (USA) and Lewis Richardson (GBR) acquired their prizes earlier than the third and fourth contests on Friday evening.