LONDON, Aug 12: Anthony Joshua handed Britain the perfect end to the Olympic boxing tournament on Sunday with super heavyweight gold as the hosts sealed their best Games in the ring for 104 years.

As Welshman Freddie Evans lost Sunday’s welterweight final to take silver and Anthony Ogogo’s middleweight bronze, Britain enjoyed their best Olympics in the ring since the 1908 London Games when they won 14 of the 15 boxing medals.

Joshua’s third gold for Britain came after some drama as he clawed back a three-point deficit going into the third to level the bout at 18-all before being awarded the contest on count-back.

Italy appealed, but the decision stood after a review and only four years after taking up boxing, Joshua was crowned Olympic champion.

There was some British disappointment as Welshman Evans was crushed 17-9 in the welterweight final by Kazakhstan’s Serik Sapiyev.

Sapiyev added Olympic gold to the world silver medal he won last year.

Ukraine’s lightweight world champion Vasyl Lomachenko won a second successive Olympic gold medal when he added the lightweight title to the featherweight crown he captured in Beijing four years ago.

Lomachenko, 24, eased to a 19-9 win over South Korea’s Han Soon-Chul.

Cuban teenager Robeisy Ramirez, 18, won the men’s Olympic flyweight gold with a 17-14 win over Mongolia’s Tugstsogt Nyambayar, 20, in a composed display.

Like Joshua, Russia’s Egor Mekhontcev also won Olympic gold on countback as he took the light heavyweight title over Kazakhstan’s Adilbek Niyazymbetov after their gold-medal bout finished 15-all.—AFP