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.