Venezuela’s Yoel Segundo Finol secured his country’s first Olympic boxing medal since 1984 after beating Algerian Mohamed Flissi to reach the flyweight semi-finals at the Rio Games.

Finol has at least a bronze to take home, the guaranteed reward for all semi-finalists, and will fight Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan today with the winner securing silver and a shot at gold.

The last Venezuelans to take an Olympic medal were light-flyweight Marcelino Bolivar and featherweight Omar Catari who both won bronze at the Los Angeles Games.

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