Boxers from the Royal Navy and the RAF have been winning medals at the 2026 Golden Girl Box Cup in Sweden.<\/p>\n
Bryony Vass and Sophie Colbourn were in action for the Senior Service, with Vass losing at the semi-final stage to Yelyzaveta Yaremchuk to win a bronze medal.<\/p>\n
Colbourn, a two-time Royal Navy Sportswoman of the Year, reached the final of the Elite A bracket but only picked up a silver medal in a losing effort to Patricia Mbata.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the RAF had a number of fighters involved throughout the weekend. Frankie Lyall beat Jade Coleman in the quarter-finals, but her momentum was stopped by Michelle Albone at the semi-final stage to take a bronze.<\/p>\n
Jen Sabine joined her as a bronze medallist after a loss to Amber Leigh, while Amelia Kennedy won silver after losing in the final to German fighter Assia El-Fachtali.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t just women involved in the tournament, as Air Force fighters Cameron Lewis, Arran Devine, Blaine Lambert, Jayden Johnson and Kymani Coleman all competed.<\/p>\n
Johnson, Lambert and Coleman were all victorious in their final matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxers from the Royal Navy and the RAF have been winning medals at the 2026 Golden Girl Box…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-453413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}