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Mongolia came to Beijing with no gold medals in a less-than-illustrious Olympic career. On Sunday, bantamweight Badar-Uugan Enkhbat beat Cuba's Yankiel Leon, 16-5, for the country's second gold.

Alexey Tishchenko of Russia has won his second Olympic boxing gold medal, surviving a tight bout against Daouda Sow of France for an 11-9 victory in the lightweight competition.

The Cuban boxing team traveled to China with no Olympic gold medalists for the first time in a generation, and it's heading home the same way. Yet the Cubans have plenty of reason to be thrilled.

Zou Shiming won China's first gold medal after Mongolia's Serdamba Purevdorj retired early. Zhang Xiaoping won China's second boxing gold medal, while Zhang Zhilei settled for silver.

Rakhim Chakhkiev of Russia has won the heavyweight boxing gold medal, avenging a loss to Italy's Clemente Russo at last year's world championships with a 4-2 victory.

James Degale of Britain has won the middleweight boxing gold medal, upsetting Cuba's Emilio Correa 16-14 in a sloppy bout filled with wrestling.

Light welterweight Felix Diaz won the first gold medal in Olympic boxing for the Dominican Republic with a 12-4 battering of defending champion Manus Boonjumnong of Thailand on Saturday night.

Thailand's Somjit Jongjohor had to be talked into staying in boxing. The words of encouragement paid off in gold Saturday night at the Beijing Olympics.

Vasyl Lomachenko of Ukraine has won the featherweight boxing gold medal, capping a spectacular run through the Beijing Olympics with a first-round stoppage of France's Khedafi Djelkhir.

Vasyl Lomachenko's eye-popping brilliance certainly caught Jacques Rogge's attention. So did Alexis Vastine's anguished wails after losing his biggest Olympic boxing match on a harsh last-minute penalty.

Two veteran boxers from Thailand with entirely different Olympic experiences made the gold medal round Friday.

Deontay Wilder was the last American standing in Olympic boxing. That also made him the last U.S. fighter to lose in the team's worst performance ever.

Ukrainian super heavyweight Vlacheslav Glazkov missed Friday's semifinal bout with China's Zhang Zhilei because of a sprained elbow.

British boxer Billy Joe Saunders has been suspended by the country's boxing authorities.

U.S. heavyweight Deontay Wilder fell to reigning world champion Clemente Russo (ITA), 7-1. Wilder still takes home the bronze - the only medal won by Team USA in Beijing. Click here for full semifinal results.

China's boxing officials hoped to earn just one gold medal in Beijing, but four fighters won medals - more than any team except Cuba.

James Degale strolled through the back hallway at Workers' Gymnasium bellowing a tuneless song. Degale wasn't the only fighter with a song in his heart after the final day of quarterfinal bouts.

Dzhakhon Kurbanov, the light heavyweight from Tajikistan who bit his opponent on the shoulder in a quarterfinal bout, won't face additional sanctions or suspension by the International Boxing Association (AIBA).

A light heavyweight boxer from Tajikistan was disqualified for biting his opponent on the shoulder during their Olympic quarterfinal bout Tuesday night.

Evander Holyfield apparently already had left Workers' Gymnasium by the time Dzhakhon Kurbanov decided to bite his opponent's shoulder in the evening's final bout.

Even at his lowest sporting moment, Akhil Kumar was buoyed by love for his unrelated brothers.

Lightweight boxer Baik Jong-sub of South Korea pulled out of the Olympics on Tuesday with an injury just a few hours before his quarterfinal bout.

A former boxer who realized his dream of seeing his son compete in the Olympics has died of heart and kidney problems.