Boxer secures Tuvalu’s first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a bout

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  • Tarona Taafaki makes history in women’s 75kg category

  • All boxers eliminated in semis receive bronze medals

A boxer has made history for ⁠Tuvalu by winning the tiny Pacific island nation’s first Commonwealth ⁠Games medal without winning a single fight.

Twenty-year-old Tarona Taafaki, ⁠one of five entrants in the women’s 75kg category, received a bye to the semi-finals where she lost on an unanimous points decision to India’s Lovlina Borgohain on Friday. At Commonwealth Games, all boxers eliminated in the semis receive bronze medals.

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