Kellie Harrington of Eire gained her second straight Olympic gold medal in the present day, outboxing China’s Yang Wenlu within the girls’s 60kg (light-weight) last bout in the present day in Paris.
Harrington additionally gained gold in Tokyo three years in the past.
Harrington gained the bout 4-1, taking 4 scorecards at 29-28 apiece, with Yang successful the remaining card, additionally scored 29-28.
The gold medal additionally provides Eire 4 total in Paris, the primary time the nation has ever gained greater than three gold medals on the Summer time Olympics. The nation’s file had stood for the reason that 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
The 34-year-old Harrington’s plan has been to retire after these Olympics, and if she does as anticipated, she goes out on prime with two Olympic gold medals, one thing even her iconic countrywoman Katie Taylor fell wanting doing again in 2016.
Bronze medals went to Wu Shih-yi of Chinese language Taipei and Beatriz Ferreira of Brazil, the latter a repeat medalist after successful silver in Tokyo, together with her defeats in each Olympics coming towards Harrington.
