{"id":832073,"date":"2026-07-28T19:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832073\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:53:11","slug":"commonwealth-games-2026-caitlin-rainey-secures-scotlands-first-boxing-medal-with-knockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832073\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games 2026: Caitlin Rainey secures Scotland&#8217;s first boxing medal with knockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caitlin Rainey has guaranteed Scotland&#8217;s first boxing medal of this Commonwealth Games after winning her quarter-final in the women&#8217;s 65kg division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With a both losing semi-finalists earning bronze, the 23-year-old taxi driver from Renton knew victory in her first bout in Glasgow would be enough to get on the podium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And she knocked down Flora Loga of Papua New Guinea three times in the second round &#8211; having won the first &#8211; to force the referee to stop the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rainey will now fight Kaci Rock of Northern Ireland in Friday&#8217;s semi, with a potential gold-medal fight on the line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, there was disappointment for team-mate Niamh Mitchell in the 60kg division after she lost her quarter-final on points to India&#8217;s Priya Priya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Rainey has guaranteed Scotland&#8217;s first boxing medal of this Commonwealth Games after winning her quarter-final in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-832073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}