Claressa Shields won her second Olympic boxing gold medal Sunday, becoming the first American to win gold in two games.
Shields dominated the first women’s boxing tournament in London and was again the class of the middleweight division in Rio. The 21-year-old Flint, Michigan, native beat
Netherlands fighter Nouchka Fontijn by unanimous decision in convincing fashion.
Shields shook and shimmied before she took her triumphant step on the medal stand. She raised her arms in victory, then pulled her 2012 London Games gold medal out of her jacket pocket and placed it around her neck.
She sang along to the national anthem, then held up both gold medals for all to see.
Shields kicked off the first of four medal bouts on the final day of the tournament that quickly turned into doubles action.
Shields showed off her two golds. Uzbekistan won two golds. And Sunday capped double gold for the first couple of the Olympic boxing tournament.
Shields was fantastic in her repeat bid.
She rocked Fontijn with a thunderous right to the face in the second round then gestured to her shaken foe to come fight in the fourth. Fontijn offered little resistance and the round served as little more than a coronation for the American face of women’s boxing.
With the medal hers, Shields raised her arms toward her friends and family in the stands after the third round. She performed a cartwheel in the ring, then took a victory lap with the American flag on her back.