“The Huge Uzbek” introduced a near a giant Olympics marketing campaign in Paris for the Uzbekistan workforce.
Bakhodir Jalolov repeated because the Olympics tremendous heavyweight champion on Saturday, defeating Spain’s Ayoub Ghadfa by unanimous determination at Roland Garros to cap off a dominant run by Uzbekistan on the 2024 Video games, tallying 5 gold medals.
Jalolov, a 6’7” southpaw with a 14-0 (14 knockouts) professional document, had gained the gold on the Tokyo Video games as properly.
The bout was one-sided from the opening bell as Jalolov focused Ghadfa’s stationary head with straight left fingers which landed with regularity. Two of these left fingers produced two standing eight counts within the remaining minute of the opening spherical.
Jalolov continued to field from the skin, countering Ghadfa’s jab with straight lefts down the center, remaining in cruise management for the rest of the stanza. With the bout already out of attain, Ghadfa turned the aggression up one other notch whereas Jalolov boxed comfortably, touchdown counterpunches however not taking any possibilities.
The Uzbekistan efficiency was a significant enchancment for the central Asian nation, which gained only one boxing gold in Tokyo and simply three golds whole in all sports activities. The 5 gold haul surpassed even their spectacular marketing campaign on the 2016 Olympics, the place they gained three golds, two silvers and two bronzes, reestablishing Uzbekistan as an novice boxing powerhouse.
Along with the golds gained by Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev (71kg), Lazizbek Mullojonov (92kg) and Hasanboy Dusmatov (51kg) in earlier days, Uzbekistan additionally added gold within the males’s 57kg division as Abdumalik Khalokov defeated Munarbek Seiitbek Uulu of Kyrgyzstan by a 5-0 determination.
Within the two remaining gold medal matches on Saturday, China’s Li Qian defeated Atheyna Bibeichi Bylon of Panama by 4-1 determination within the ladies’s 75kg remaining, and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting defeated Poland’s Julia Szeremeta by 5-0 determination to win the ladies’s 57kg gold.
China, which had three golds and two silvers, got here in second within the Olympic boxing medal tally, adopted by Taiwan, with a gold and two bronzes and Cuba, which had one gold and one bronze.
Boxing, which has been on the Olympic curriculum since 1904, has not but been added to the Olympic schedule for Los Angeles 2028 as a brand new governing physique has but to be acknowledged by the Worldwide Olympic Committee. Boxing had beforehand been ruled by the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation, previously often known as AIBA, however the Russia based mostly group has not overseen Olympic boxing since 2016, having been completely suspended because of governance and monetary scandals.
