CON­GRAT­U­LA­TIONS

T&T’s box­er Nigel Paul, right, with his bronze medal and US$25,000 af­ter he lost 4-1 to Mark Petro­vskii, sec­ond from left, of Rus­sia in their se­mi-fi­nal match. Petro­vski­ii won the ti­tle af­ter de­feat­ing Ar­me­nia’s Davit Chaloy­an, who had to set­tle for the sil­ver medal and US$50,000 in the Men’s Su­per heavy­weight (92+ Kg) at the AI­BA World Box­ing Cham­pi­onships in Ser­bia on Fri­day. Petro­vskii, the gold medal­ist earned US$100,000, while the oth­er bronze medal­list was Ma­ham­mad Ab­dul­layev, third from right, of Azer­bai­jan. He al­so col­lect­ed US$25,000.

Paul, 27, is the first box­er from the T&T to win a medal at the AI­BA World Cham­pi­onships. It’s the on­ly medal won by a box­er from the Caribbean at the tour­na­ment.