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Sarsekbayev wins welterweight gold

BEIJING
Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:05am EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Kazakh Bakhyt Sarsekbayev won the Olympic boxing welterweight gold medal by outpointing Cuba's Carlos Banteaux in the final on Sunday.

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Asian champion Sarsekbayev, 26, trailed 1-0 after the first round but then stepped up a few gears to win 18-9 and make sure Cuba left without a title.

The superpower of the sport, who came here with their least-experienced squad in years after a string of defections, will have to be content with eight medals, four silver and four bronze, but no gold.

China's Hanati Silamu and South Korean Kim Jung-joo lost in the welterweight semi-finals to share the bronze.

(Reporting by Patrick Vignal, editing by Greg Stutchbury)
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