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Egan with his silver medal

Irish light heavyweight Egan lost his gold medal fight to Xiaoping Zhang by 11-7 at the Worker’s Gymnasium in Beijing.

The eight time Irish national champion put up a brave effort but some controversial judging made it very difficult for the 26-year-old, and he never got back on terms after going behind early.

Zhang took a two point lead in the first round as Egan struggled to make an impact. The next round was level, but whenever the Irishman got a point back, Zhang quickly responded.

In round three there was jeering in the Workers Gymnasium as some of Egan’s apparently clean shots were not given by the judges, while most of the punches Zhang threw were scored with some of the Clondalkin fighter’s shots looking certain points

But the tall Chinese boxer’ tactics of forcing the shorter Egan to come at him were spot on, and he kept Egan at bay. As the final round bell rang Egan was trailing by three points and the chance of gold began to drift away. Despite landing a couple of shots, he couldn’t get close on the scorecard as the Chinese countered well.

Afterwards, Egan insisted he was not worried by the scoring system in the bout, but admitted it had been hard to adjust to the different points awarded throughout the Games.

He said: ‘The score’s the score and I still get a medal. The whole games have been great and a silver is still brilliant. Over the past two weeks I don’t think anyone’s appreciated how hard it’s been. Shoulder slaps get scored.

‘All I could do was get in there and box.’

Coach Billy Walsh added: ‘You’ve got to keep working, hunt down every point, which isn’t Kenny’s game. He needs to get ahead early on.’