Light-flyweight Hasanboy Dusmatov won Uzbekistan's first gold medal of the Rio Olympics on Sunday Aug 14,2016 when he beat Colombia's Yurberjen Martinez on unanimous points.
Bronze medals went to Cuba's Joahnys Argilagos of Cuba and the American Nico Hernandez, who each lost in the semi-finals.
The Uzbek, 23, whose biggest previous victory was gold at the Asian Championships in 2015, paraded around the 9,000-seat arena afterwards on the back of one of his trainers, a flag of Uzbekistan slung around his shoulders.
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