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Tarona Taafaki earns tiny Tuvalu first-ever Games medal

Tarona Taafaki earned Tuvalu the tiny South-Pacific nation's first-ever Commonwealth Games medal. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Tarona Taafaki has put Tuvalu on the sporting map by winning the tiny South Pacific nation's first-ever medal at the Commonwealth Games.

And the beauty of it all is the 20-year-old southpaw, who competed in the women's 75-kg category, achieved the feat in Glasgow without winning a fight.

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