Featherweight Duke Ragan kept the U.S. men’s Olympic winning streak alive Tuesday evening U.S. time.
Ragan, a 23-year-old from Cincinnati, outpointed Serik Temirzhanov of Kazakhstan 5-0 to reach the quarterfinals and give the American men a record of 6-0 so far in the Tokyo Games.
Ragan will face Kurt Walker of Ireland on Saturday evening U.S. time to clinch at least a bronze medal.
Duke Ragan looked a lot shaper in his second fight in Tokyo ! Good win ! Olympic Games pressure is real. Cutting weight every 2-3 days is real and the competition gets tougher with each fight. We are built for this ! #USA #Tokyo2020
— Andre S.O.G. Ward (@andreward) July 28, 2021
Walker, from Lizburn, scored a stunning upset by defeating World Champion and No. 1 seed Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov of Uzbekistan 4-1 in their Round of 16 fight.
Ragan won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships.
In the women’s competition, middleweight Naomi Graham of Fayetteville, N.C., was scheduled to face Zenfira Magomedalieva of the Russian Olympic Committee in the Round of 16 in the early morning hours Sunday U.S. time.
The U.S. women were 2-1 going into that fight, making the Americans 8-1 overall.
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