Olympics: Zou wins medal for China

BBC News
Aug 24 2004

Zou wins medal for China

Boxing results in full

Zou Shiming claimed China’s first Olympic boxing medal by beating
Armenia’s Aleksan Nalbandyan 20-12 in the light flyweight
quarter-finals.
Zou now faces Yan Bhartelemy Varela in Friday’s semi-finals, the
Cuban having outscored South Korea’s Hong Moo Won.

Russia’s Sergey Kazakov beat Namibia’s Joseph Jermi 18-11 and fights
Turkey’s Atagun Yalcinkaya in the last four.

Zou defeated Bhartelemy Varela at last year’s world championships in
Bangkok and went on to win a silver medal.

Yalcinkaya outpointed Italy’s Alfonso Pinto 33-24.