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Olympics--Boxing-Cuba's Lopez wins men's middleweight gold

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Arlen Lopez beat Uzbekistan's Bektemir Melikuziev to win the men's middleweight title on Saturday and Cuba's third gold medal of the Olympic boxing tournament. Azerbaijan's Kamran Shakhsuvarly and Mexico's Misael Rodriguez took the bronze medals as losing semi-finalists. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Nina Chestney)