Sporting Life - Summer Olympics - Beijing 2008

Boxing

Event Guide:

  • Sunday August 24

    0030 Athletics - Men's marathon
    0630 Boxing - Six finals
    0730 Basketball - Men's final
    1330 Closing ceremony
    All times BST
Medals Table
G S B Tot
1 CHN 51 21 28 100
2 USA 36 38 36 110
3 RUS 23 21 28 72
4 GBR 19 13 15 47
5 GER 16 10 15 41
6 AUS 14 15 17 46
Olympic History

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Team GB

Competitor List

Take a look at the British athletes heading for Beijing

Egan takes silver for Ireland

Kenny Egan had to settle for silver after losing 11-7 to Xiaoping Zhang in the final of the light-heavyweight division at the Beijing Olympics.

DeGale strikes gold

Great Britain's James DeGale won gold in the middleweight boxing division after a 16-14 win over Cuba's Emilio Correa in the final.

Egan too good for Jeffries

Ireland's Kenny Egan won Friday's second Anglo-Irish contest against Tony Jeffries to earn a place in the light-heavyweight final.

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