- Price beats Li Qian for GB’s second boxing gold of Games
- Team GB medal haul 0f 65 equals number won at London 2012
Lauren Price’s Olympic journey started 11 long days ago in the quiet preliminary rounds of this gripping middleweight competition. Amid all of the inevitable pressure, nerves and excitement, she both navigated unanimous victories and was forced to draw on everything in order to maintain her spot in her competition alike.
As she stood one win away from her clearly stated goal, she did not blink. After arriving in Tokyo as the first Welsh female boxer to even qualify for the Olympic Games, she will walk away as the Olympic champion, a sterling gold medal secured by a supreme, dominant unanimous victory against Li Qian of China.
