{"id":1229669,"date":"2021-08-07T20:44:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T00:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=1229669"},"modified":"2021-08-07T21:49:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T01:49:39","slug":"hebert-conceicao-becomes-fifth-middleweight-boxer-to-win-olympic-gold-via-a-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/hebert-conceicao-becomes-fifth-middleweight-boxer-to-win-olympic-gold-via-a-knockout\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebert Conceicao becomes fifth middleweight boxer to win Olympic gold via knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hebert Conceicao of Brazil became the fifth men’s middleweight boxer all-time to win Olympic gold via a knockout. In an exciting gold medal winning bout on Saturday at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, Conceicao knocked down silver medalist Oleksandr Khyzhniak of Ukraine in the third round after losing each of the first two rounds to his opponent. The other four men’s middleweight boxers to win a gold medal via a knockout were Charles Mayer of the United States at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis<\/a>, Floyd Patterson of the United States at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki<\/a>, Gennadi Schatkov of the Soviet Union at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne<\/a>, and Vyacheslav Lemeshev of the Soviet Union at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n