{"id":826522,"date":"2026-07-27T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/826522\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:04:33","slug":"clyde-moves-to-within-one-win-of-a-commonwealth-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/826522\/","title":{"rendered":"Clyde Moves to Within One Win of a Commonwealth Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingireland.ie\/cwg-wf-berth-for-clyde\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Boxing Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team NI\u2019s Nicole Clyde has won through to the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Clyde was the 5-0 winner over Ghana\u2019s Nancy Bamfo in a bout in which she dominated every round, and two forced counts 3rd round. Judges scored the bout 30:26; 30: 26; 29:27; 29:27; 30: 26. The Antrim BC boxer will contest for a medal at 6pm Tuesday, against the Preeti of India, who was the RSC2 winner over Deborah Mtenje of Malawai. Preeti is a Paris Olympian, and the reigning Asian and World champion at the weight.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to TeamNI after her bout, Clyde said \u201cReally happy with the performance, and just good to get off the mark and get going.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This is the boxers second Commonwealth Games campaign, and she shares what she\u2019s learned in the intervening four years \u201cJust to go out and enjoy myself, rather than putting a load of pressure on myself. Now, I\u2019m going out and I\u2019m taking it one round at a time\u2026.Four years ago, I was panicking, I was under pressure \u2013 I put myself under pressure. But this time, I\u2019m just out and enjoying it. Having a bit of fun out there, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JP Hale exits following a tempestuous, high tempo bout of contrasting styles. The Star BC 65kg boxer contested at Last 16 against England\u2019s Patris Mughalzai. Points were deducted from both boxers \u2013 two from the Team NI athlete, and 1 from the England boxer.<\/p>\n<p>Hyde showed great power and physicality throughout the contest, and this experience will stand to him in future competitions. The result was 5-0 to Mulghazi, and the judges scored the bout 29: 25; 28: 26; 29:25; 28: 26; 29:25, reflecting all three point deductions.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing is Team NI\u2019s most successful sport, having won 61 CWG medals, of which 13 are gold. Team NI topped the medal table in the ring four years ago in Birmingham with 5 golds and silver and a bronze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of Boxing Ireland Team NI\u2019s Nicole Clyde has won through to the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games quarter-finals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,16742,399407,85],"class_list":["post-826522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-nicole-clyde","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826522","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=826522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}