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Tokyo Olympics boxing: GB's Karriss Artingstall positive of medal, Ben Whittaker & Lauren Value progress

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Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8Protection: Watch reside on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Crimson Button and on-line; Pay attention on BBC Radio 5 Reside, Sports activities Additional and Sounds; reside textual content and video clips on BBC Sport web site and app.

Nice Britain’s Karriss Artingstall is assured at the least a bronze medal after beating Australia’s Skye Nicolson by a break up resolution on day 5 of the Tokyo Olympics.

In a decent contest, Artingstalll gained three of the 5 rounds to succeed in the ladies’s featherweight semi-final.

She is going to face both Romania’s Maria Claudia Nechita or Japan’s Sena Irie.

It was the third Workforce GB win of the day after Ben Whittaker and Lauren Value each reached the quarter-finals.

“The final 10 seconds when Skye Nicolson pinned her again I assumed that may be the decider – she had jiffy,” Steve Bunce instructed BBC TV.

“Karriss Artingstall is elated. She is thrashing folks she’s meant to lose to. She’s crushed the quantity three seed; she’s simply crushed the Commonwealth Video games champion.

“When you get to a semi-final, all bets are off.”

Earlier on Wednesday, males’s light-heavyweight Whittaker cruised previous Egypt’s Abdelrahman Oraby on factors, successful each spherical.

Girls’s middleweight Value was awarded each spherical by all 5 judges towards Mongolia’s Myagmarjargal Munkhbat.

Reigning world champion Value is the primary seed in Tokyo and she or he demonstrated her superiority all through.

Whittaker fights Brazil’s Keno Machado on Friday, whereas Value will face Panama’s Atheyna Bylon on Saturday.

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