By Ian Gordon
Lauren Price will bid to give her Olympics preparations a perfect gold medal boost in the final of the qualifying tournament in Paris on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old – who booked her spot in Tokyo by reaching the semi-finals – beat Ireland’s Aoife O’Rourke on Monday by unanimous decision in the middleweight category.
Top seed Price will face Zenfira Magomedalieva of Russia in the final having already guaranteed herself a silver medal.
RESULT: @LLPrice94 BEATS Aoife O'Rourke 🇮🇪 via unanimous points decision.
Top seed Lauren goes through to tomorrow's middleweight final where she is guaranteed at least 🥈.
Congrats Lauren and best of luck for tomorrow! 👏 pic.twitter.com/ybvkKALxPJ
— GB Boxing (@gbboxing) June 7, 2021
Bargoed’s world, European Games and Commonwealth Games champ has won all three of her bouts in Paris by unanimous decision so far.
Price opened with victory over France’s Davina Michel before seeing off Ukraine’s Anastasiia Chernokolenko in the quarter-finals to secure that coveted Games spot.