🇫🇷 2024 Paris Olympic Games, July 26 – August 11
KHELIF MAKES HISTORY
Algeria’s Imane Khelif (pictured) defeated China’s world welterweight champion Yang Liu by a unanimous decision to make history as Africa’s first ever female boxer to win an Olympic gold medal and the first one also to scoop a medal in the Olympic Games.
Cheered by a large Algerian crowd chanting “allez Imane” at the Roland-Garros Stadium, Imane won the nod of all the five judges who scored 10-9 in each round.
She becomes Algeria’s second boxer to win Olympic gold after Hocine Soltani at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Imane’s gold is the 3rd one for Africa in the Olympics after the two previously won by her compatriot Soltani and the first African gold by Kenya’s Robert “Aruba” Wangila in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Wangila is Africa’s first ever black boxer to win Olympic gold. Apartheid South Africa other six gold medals from white South African boxers during the apartheid era is still not being counted as an African record at the Olympic.
Ghana’s Clement is on record to be the 1st African to win an Olympic medal in any sports discipline,he won Silver in boxing Welterweight at the Rome,1960 Rome Olympic games?
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