Rio Olympics 2016: Claressa Shields retains women's middleweight Olympic gold
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American Claressa Shields retained her Olympic title as she beat Nouchka Fontijn of the Netherlands in the women's middleweight final in Rio.
Shields, 21, won by a unanimous points decision to become the first American, male or female, to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in boxing.
Fontijn defeated Great Britain's Savannah Marshall in the quarter-finals but was outclassed in the final.
Shields' gold medal is the 44th for the United States at the 2016 Olympics.
One judge gave her the verdict by 40-36, with the other two scoring it 39-37 in her favour.
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