Tokyo-2020: Turkey's female boxers make their way to final for first time in history
Individual sports
- 04 August, 2021
- 07:03

Turkey's two female boxers have reached the final of the Tokyo-2020 Summer Olympic Games for the first time in history.
Report informs that Buse Naz Cakiroglu upset China's Hsiao-Wen Huang in the seminfinal in the women's 51-kilogram event.
Another Turkish boxer Busenaz Surmeneli did not give a single chance to her Indian opponent Lovlina Borgohain in the 68-kilogram event - 5:1. Cakiroglu will vie for gold against Stoyka Krasteva of Bulgaria, while Surmeneli will meet China's Gu Hong on August 7.
Both boxers have made history for Turkey by reaching the final. Tokyo-2020 ends on August 8.
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