{"id":837601,"date":"2026-08-01T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837601\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:49:08","slug":"boxing-taafaki-secures-tuvalus-first-commonwealth-games-medal-without-winning-a-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837601\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing-Taafaki secures Tuvalu\u2019s first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 1 (Reuters) \u2013 Boxer Tarona Taafaki made history for Tuvalu when she won \u200bthe Pacific island nation\u2019s \u200cfirst ever Commonwealth Games medal in Glasgow, without winning a single bout.<\/p>\n<p>Taafaki, one of five entrants \u200cin \u200bthe women\u2019s 75kg \u2060category, received a \u2060bye to the semi-finals where she lost to India\u2019s Lovlina Borgohain on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth \u200bGames does not hold bronze medal bouts and all \u2060boxers eliminated \u2060in the semis receive \u200bbronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud and very \u200bglad to be able to \u200crepresent my country on this big stage,\u201d said 20-year-old Taafaki, one of only \u2060eight athletes and para athletes from the country at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>Tuvalu \u2060has \u200ca population of just \u2060over 10,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably \u200b95% \u200cof the audience don\u2019t \u200bknow where \u2060my country is, so I feel very privileged to represent Tuvalu,\u201d Taafaki added.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Chiranjit Ojha in BengaluruEditing by \u200bShri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 1 (Reuters) \u2013 Boxer Tarona Taafaki made history for Tuvalu when she won \u200bthe Pacific island nation\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-837601","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\/837601","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=837601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}