Box: Badar-Uugan wins Mongolia's first boxing gold

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2008
Box: Badar-Uugan wins Mongolia's first boxing gold

BEIJING, Aug 24 AFP - Badar-Uugan Enkhbat won Mongolia's first ever Olympic boxing
gold medal by beating Cuba's Yankiel Leon 15-5 in the bantamweight final in Beijing today.

Cheered on by a sizeable Mongolian contingent in the Workers Gymnasium, Enkhbat built
up an early 4-1 lead after the first round and extended it with slick counter-punching
off the back foot as Leon moved forwards.

It completed a stunning Games for Mongolia, which last week won its first ever Olympic
gold medal through Tuvshinbayar Naidan in the heavyweight judo competition.

Earlier today Serdamba Purevdorj also won silver in the boxing light-flyweight category
- he and Enkhbat yesterday became the first Mongolians to reach boxing finals.

Bronze medals went to Veaceslav Gojan of Moldova and Bruno Julie of Mauritius, who
won his country's first ever Olympic medal.

AFP jmt

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