England finished with four boxing gold medals after super heavyweight Damar Thomas added to wins by Sacha Hickey, Patris Mughalzai and Isaac Okoh earlier on Saturday. <\/p>\n
It meant England finished second in the boxing medal table behind India, who won seven golds. <\/p>\n
They had already equaled their record medal haul of 10 for a Commonwealth Games, but missed out on the seven golds needed to make this their most successful games. <\/p>\n
Dimeji Shittu, Chantelle Reid and Ruby White lost their finals.<\/p>\n
Thomas signed off the event by confidently beating Narender Berwal in the final fight of the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels great,\u201c he said. \u201cWords can’t explain it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hickey beat Northern Ireland’s Kaci Rock and then explained how she got into boxing by playing on an Nintendo Wii in her parents’ living room.<\/p>\n
“I felt I was in control of the fight,” she said. <\/p>\n
“I sparred with Kaci a few weeks ago and she is an amazing person, advocate for women in sport and someone I look up to.”<\/p>\n
Mughalzai, who was born in Russia but learned to box in London after moving to the UK as a toddler, beat Australia’s Jacob Cassar. <\/p>\n
“As soon as draw came out, I saw I had it hard. I think I have boxed all of the best kids here,” said Mughalzai.<\/p>\n
“Skills pay the bills.”<\/p>\n
Essex’s Okoh, who like Hickey and Mughalzai won by unanimous decision, came through a tough tussle with Welshman Connor Williams and said he has “two eyes” fixed on winning an Olympic title in Los Angeles in 2028.<\/p>\n
“It is the dream of all amateur boxers to win an Olympic medal,” he said. <\/p>\n
“We are the right route to getting there. I feel I am more than capable of doing it.”<\/p>\n
White, 19, who only progressed onto the senior Great Britain programme in May, came into the final on an eight-year unbeaten run stretching back to when she was 11 years old.<\/p>\n
She was well beaten by a bigger, more experienced opponent in India\u2019s Sakshi Chaudhary, however.<\/p>\n
And though Reid is more experienced at 28, she was also comfortably beaten by India\u2019s Arundhati Choudhary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England finished with four boxing gold medals after super heavyweight Damar Thomas added to wins by Sacha Hickey,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725103","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\/725103","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=725103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}