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Alexis Vastine of France, reacts after his fight against Taras Shelestyuk of Ukraine, during welterweight 69-kg quarterfinal boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in London. Patrick Semansky, Associated Press
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Andrew Selby of Great Britain, and Robeisy Ramierez Carrazana of Cuba, react after their flyweight 52-kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in London. Patrick Semansky, Associated Press
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Freddie Evans of Great Britain, left, fights Custio Clayton of Canada, left, in a welterweight 69-kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in London. Patrick Semansky, Associated Press
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Michael Conlan of Ireland, left, and Nordine Oubaali of France, react after their men's quarterfinal flyweight 52-kg boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in London. Ivan Sekretarev, Associated Press
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Alexis Vastine of France, reacts after his fight against Taras Shelestyuk of Ukraine, during welterweight 69-kg quarterfinal boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in London. Ivan Sekretarev, Associated Press
By Associated Press

LONDON — The U.S. men's boxing team is heading home with no Olympic medals for the first time.

Welterweight Errol Spence dropped a 16-11 decision to Russia's Andrey Zamkovoy in the quarterfinals on Tuesday night.

Spence represented the last chance for the most successful team in Olympic boxing history to add to its record 108 medals. Instead, the Dallas-area fighter started slowly and never got going in his team's ninth loss in 10 fights.

Spence only reached the quarterfinals after the Americans successfully protested a loss to India's Krishan Vikas.

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Welterweight Freddie Evans clinched Britain's fifth medal of the Olympic tournament with a tiebreaker victory over Custio Clayton, who fell just short of Canada's first boxing medal since 1996.

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