Boxing: Britain's Campbell wins bantamweight gold
Posted : Saturday, 11 August 2012 04:27PM
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Luke Campbell beat Ireland's John Joe Nevin to win the men's Olympic bantamweight boxing gold medal on Saturday.
Campbell claimed a 14-11 victory at London's ExCel arena. Losing semi-finalists Lazaro Alvarez Estrada of Cuba and Satoshi Shimizu of Japan took bronze.
(Reporting by Patrick Johnston; editing by Michael Holden)
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