Boxer secures Tuvalu’s first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a bout
by Sean Ingle in Glasgow from World news | The Guardian on (#77CVK)
Tarona Taafaki makes history in women's 75kg category
All boxers eliminated in semis receive bronze medals
A boxer has made history for Tuvalu by winning the tiny Pacific island nation's first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a single fight.
Twenty-year-old Tarona Taafaki, one of five entrants in the women's 75kg category, received a bye to the semi-finals where she lost on an unanimous points decision to India's Lovlina Borgohain on Friday. At Commonwealth Games, all boxers eliminated in the semis receive bronze medals.
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