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Stoyka Krasteva of Bulgaria wins women's flyweight gold
Stoyka Krasteva of Bulgaria won the women’s flyweight boxing gold medal. She beat top-seeded Buse Naz Cakiroglu of Turkey 5:0.
TOKYO: Stoyka Krasteva of Bulgaria won the women's flyweight boxing gold medal. She beat top-seeded Buse Naz Cakiroglu of Turkey 5:0.
The 36-year-old Krasteva, a 2012 Olympian, dominated her final four opponents to win Bulgaria's fifth-ever boxing gold and its first since Daniel Petrov in 1996. Bulgaria had won just one bronze in boxing since 2004.
Cakiroglu lost the final decisively but won Turkey's third-ever silver medal in boxing and sixth medal overall. Huang Hsiao-wen of Taiwan, the 2019 world champion, and Tsukimi Namiki of Japan won bronze in the lightest women's weight class.
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