World boxing's leading nation Cuba won four gold medals at the Goodwill Games today.
The Caribbean boxing superpowers cleaned up all four of their finals - bantamweight Guillermo Rigondeaux, lightweight Mario Kindelan, welterweight Jhonson (Jhonson) Yudel and heavyweight Solis Odlaniel.
Rigondeaux and Kindelan, both Olympic and world champions, had decisive points decisions in their gold medal bouts.
Rigondeaux outpointed Ukraine's Sergei Danylchenko 12-2 and southpaw Kindelan mastered Russian Aleksei Stepanov 17-6.
Yudel was behind going into the final round of his bout with American Anthony Thompson, but prevailed 19-16, while Odlaniel, fighting in triple Olympic champion Felix Savon's old division, repulsed Russian Yevgeni Arkhipov 12-9.
Ronald Siler won the United States' only gold of the first session of six finals, outpointing Russian Sergei Kazakov 17-9.
Russian Olympic silver medallist Gaidarbek Gaidaibekov was too experienced for Australian Paul Miller winning the middleweight gold 9-5.
Miller had progressed straight to the final after Cuban Olympic champion Jorge Gutierrez was forced out of the competition with a fractured hand.
The remaining six boxing finals at the Goodwill Games will be staged on Sunday.
AFP