Tunisia’s African Games bronze medallist Kholoud Hlimi offered little resistance enroute to a unanimous points defeat by Turkey’s Yildiz Kahraman in a pre-quarter female featherweight bout as the Olympic Games boxing tournament entered Day 7 at the North Paris Arena on Friday, August 2.
The Turkish boxer remained in the driver’s seat throughout the fight that it came as no surprise when she advanced to the quarters on a 5-0 decision.
Hlimi is now the 19th African boxer to be bundled out, and it’s now four boxers left in the competition.
Infact it should be 20 boxers because one will lose tonight in an all-African flyweight quarter-final bout between Zambia’s Patrick ‘Baddo’ Chinyemba and Cape Verde’s David Pina. The result will also hand Africa a first confirmed boxing medal in Paris.
The two met for the first time in the 2020 Olympic qualifiers in Dakar, Senegal, with Chinyemba outpointing Pina, and eventually qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.
Credit: AFBC Communications
