Taiwanese boxer Huang Hsiao-wen (黃筱雯) won a bronze medal in the flyweight category at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, the first medal Taiwan has ever won in the sport, after falling to world No. 2 Buse Naz Cakiroglu of Turkey in a semifinal bout.
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