Caitlin Rainey has guaranteed Scotland’s first ever boxing medal at a Commonwealth Games after winning her quarter-final in the women’s 65kg division.<\/p>\n
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 secure her country’s first boxing podium this year.<\/p>\n
And she knocked down Flora Loga of Papua New Guinea three times in the second round – having won the first – to force the referee to stop the contest.<\/p>\n
Rainey will now fight Kaci Rock of Northern Ireland in Friday’s semi, with a potential gold-medal fight on the line. <\/p>\n
Heavyweight Robert McNulty is also guaranteed a medal after he won his quarter-final on points against Kapil Pokhariya of India.<\/p>\n
However, there was disappointment for Niamh Mitchell in the 60kg division after she lost her quarter-final on points to another Indian, Priya Priya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Rainey has guaranteed Scotland’s first ever boxing medal at a Commonwealth Games after winning her quarter-final in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718956","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\/718956","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=718956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}