4 Aug 2021

David Nyikia's family very proud of Bronze medal in Tokyo

From First Up, 5:45 am on 4 August 2021

Sandwiched between Lisa Carrington's two gold medals yesterday was Hamilton heavyweight David Nyika's bronze medal. His medal is New Zealand's first in boxing since David Tua won Bronze at Barcelona in 1992. Twenty-five year old Nyika was beaten by gold medal favourite Muslim Gadzhimagomedov of Russia who won the bout 4-1. But his parents Simon and Susie couldn't be prouder as our reporter Nick Truebridge discovered when he joined them and older brother Josh to watch the fight at Hamilton's Wayward Pigeon pub