By Aadi Nair
PARIS (Reuters) -Uzbekistan’s Lazizbek Mullojonov won gold in the men’s heavyweight boxing by unanimous decision at the Olympics on Friday, leaving Azerbaijan’s Loren Alfonso with silver.
Tajikistan’s Davlat Boltaev and Enmanuel Reyes of Spain took bronze after their semi-final defeats.
Mullojonov became the third Uzbek boxer to win gold at the Paris Games after Hasanboy Dusmatov’s flyweight win on Thursday and Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev’s welterweight victory earlier on Friday, putting them ahead of China, who have two gold medals.
Mullojonov dominated in the fight, winning the first two rounds on every judge’s scorecard as he landed the cleaner shots and nullified Alfonso’s attack with his movement.
Alfonso did better in the third round, but was unable to do enough to sway the judges as Mullojonov took a 5-0 win.
Tokyo bronze medallist Alfonso, who was born in Cuba, was looking to become the first boxer from Azerbaijan to win gold at the Olympics.
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Paris; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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