RIO DE JANEIRO—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.
United States' Claressa Maria Shields (R) fights Netherlands' Nouchka Fontijn during a women's middleweight 75-kg final boxing match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 21, 2016. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II
