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Team Northern Ireland boxers Michaela Walsh and Kaci Rock both had to settle for Commonwealth Games silver medals as they lost their respective finals by unanimous decision.<\/b><\/p>\n
Holy Family fighter Walsh, who has earned a medal in each of her four successive Games appearances, has claimed a third silver after also coming second in 2014 and 2018.<\/p>\n
But she missed out on the chance to add a second gold to the one she won in Birmingham four years ago after being outclassed by Jaismine.<\/p>\n
The decorated 33-year-old also won gold in 2022, and joins bowler Neil Booth, shooter Martin Millar plus Mike Bull and Lady Mary Peters from athletics on four medals.<\/p>\n
Only shooter David Calvert has won more medals with eight, four of which were gold.<\/p>\n
Three of the five judges scored the fight 29-28 while the other two gave it 30-27 with all in favour of Jaismine.<\/p>\n
Walsh made a slow start and had an uphill battle after a cagey first round which she lost 3-2.<\/p>\n
The second was a much closer affair and while she went all out for the stoppage in the third, her efforts were in vain as Jaismine did enough to win and claim the gold.<\/p>\n
Rock comes away from her first Games with NI’s fourth silver after falling short against England’s Sacha Hickey.<\/p>\n
Hickey just had too much for 23-year-old Rock in an entertaining encounter, with four judges scoring it 30-27 and one 29-28 for the English fighter.<\/p>\n
She edged the first two rounds and pushed on in the third to comfortably take victory.<\/p>\n
Jon McConnell has the chance to add boxing’s first gold of these Games when he fights Wales’ Orlando Holley-Sotomi in the men’s light-middleweight final at 13:15 BST.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n