Olympics-Boxing-Flyweight Finol ends Venezuela's long medal wait

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Venezuela's Yoel Segundo Finol secured his country's first Olympic boxing medal since 1984 on Wednesday after beating Algerian Mohamed Flissi to reach the flyweight semi-finals at the Rio Games. Finol has at least a bronze to take home, the guaranteed reward for all semi-finalists, and will fight Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan on Friday with the winner securing silver and a shot at gold. The last Venezuelans to take an Olympic medal were light-flyweight Marcelino Bolivar and featherweight Omar Catari who both won bronze at the Los Angeles Games. In the other quarter-finals, Russia's Misha Aloian beat Colombia's Ceiber Avila to set up a semi-final with China's Hu Jianguan, who defeated Cuban southpaw Yosbany Veitia. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Andrew Hay)