Eire’s Kellie Harrington will look to win a second straight boxing gold medal on Tuesday from Paris, going through China’s Yang Wenlu within the ultimate bout of the ladies’s 60kg (light-weight) competitors.
Yang defeated Wu Shi-yi of Chinese language Taipei in Saturday’s first session ultimate bout, sweeping the playing cards at 30-27 5 instances and maintaining her unbeaten streak towards Wu alive within the course of.
A number of hours later, Harrington as soon as once more confronted her nice rival, Brazil’s Beatriz Ferreira, to shut the second session. The 2 met within the gold medal match in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics, with Harrington popping out on high.
Three years later, Harrington stays a high novice and Ferreira has gained the IBF light-weight championship as an expert. However the Irish star was once more the higher fighter, taking a 4-1 win over the Brazilian. The 2 embraced after it was over like correct sporting rivals.
Although Olympic seeding is convoluted and doesn’t actually imply all that a lot quite a lot of the time, it’s value noting that the 33-year-old Yang is the highest seed within the bracket and an skilled, high-level novice, actually no pushover matchup for the 34-year-old Harrington, however Harrington deserves to be the clear favourite, as a result of she’s nonetheless boxing at a really excessive degree.
Harrington vs Yang will happen on Tuesday, Aug. 6, beginning at 5:06 pm ET.
