Sacha Hickey and Okoh\u2019s flat-mate Patris Mughalzai also won gold in the space of two hours, with a further four English finalists boxing later. It was the most finalists England have ever had at a Commonwealth Games but they could not surpass the six golds from the 2018 event. Damar Thomas delivered a fourth boxing gold in the final fight of the day but Ruby White, Chantelle Reid and Oladimeji Shittu all had to settle for silver after losing their bouts in the evening session.<\/p>\n
Many of the best British amateur boxers live together in flats in Sheffield, training daily and gathering for big pay-per-view fight nights, as part of the Team GB Olympic squad under the tutelage of performance director Rob McCracken. \u201cIt\u2019s a tight-knit group, everyone helps out, we cook for each other,\u201d Okoh said. \u201cWe\u2019re all achieving amazing things at the minute. Rob knows everything that\u2019s going on in Sheffield \u2013 it\u2019s a great environment and a brilliant group of people to train with.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome LA [2028 Olympics], I\u2019ll be looking to win another gold medal. You\u2019re going to see us back at the top of the podium again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hickey, from Eltham in south-east London, began boxing at a gym on the Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke when she was \u201cfive or six\u201d and the only girl in the gym. \u201cI mainly sparred all the boys, and my brother Aaron was around the same weight as me, so we\u2019d have a move about together as well,\u201d said the 22-year-old, who would also practise on her Nintendo Wii. \u201cI remember shadow-boxing in front of the TV and somehow I\u2019ve ended up here today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacha Hickey and Okoh\u2019s flat-mate Patris Mughalzai also won gold in the space of two hours, with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,136702,120,217,101,5438,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-723234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-prince-william","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723234","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=723234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}