{"id":718244,"date":"2026-07-30T01:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718244\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T01:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:25:17","slug":"kerr-wins-to-ensure-third-boxing-medal-for-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718244\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerr wins to ensure third boxing medal for Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland will end the Commonwealth Games with three boxing medals after Sonny Kerr won his quarter-final on Wednesday to secure at least bronze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Aberdonian fight, outpointed Marion Ah Tong of Samoa in the 70kg division to move into the semi-finals, where victory would put him into the gold-medal match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then 21-year-old joins Caitlin Rainey (65kg) and Robert McNulty (90kg) in guaranteeing medals, with all three next in action on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, there was disappointment for team-mates Nicholas Devlin and Lara Brown, who narrowly lost their quarter-finals at the SEC earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devlin was outpointed by Owain Harris-Allan of Wales in the 60kg division &#8211; an outcome he had no quarrel with &#8211; just half an hour after Brown suffered the same fate against Michaela Walsh of Northern Ireland in the in 57kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland will end the Commonwealth Games with three boxing medals after Sonny Kerr won his quarter-final on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}