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Mbenge clinches boxing medal (Supersport reports) Thulani Mbenge will win South Africa’s first Commonwealth Games boxing medal since 2006 later this week. Mbenge reached the welterweight semifinals when he beat Eon Bancroft from Guyana on points in Glasgow on Wednesday. This ensures him of at least a bronze medal in the 69kg division. Mbenge will take on Englands Scott Fitzgerald in the semifinals, hoping to go on to fight for the gold medal. But the bad news is that middleweight Siphiwe Lusizi and bantamweight Ayabonga Sonjica did not make it into the semifinals and won’t bring back medals. Connor Coyle of Northern Ireland beat Lusizi on points and Sean McGoldrick of Wales did the same to Sonjica. South Africans have not won Commonwealth Games boxing medals since Bongani Mwelase took gold and Jackson Chauke silver in Melbourne in 2006.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:06:54 +0000

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