Frankie Gavin (boxer)

Frankie Raymond Gavin (born September 28 1985) is an amateur boxer from Birmingham, England who won the gold medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships to become English boxing's first ever World Amateur champion.

Career

On 25 March 2006, Gavin, a southpaw, defeated Giovanni Frontin of Mauritius to win the Commonwealth gold in the lightweight (60kg) category.

2 English ABA champion- 2004-2005.2006-20074-Nations champion - 2004-2005.ABA Box-Off Champion - 2004-2005.Frankie won bronze at the E.U championships after losing a controversial decision to D.Valentino. Frankie has beaten him twice since.At the European Championships 2006 he lost to Olexandr Klyuchko.

2007 World Championships

At the 2007 World Championships he first beat reigning world silver medallist and fellow southpaw Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan scoring a knockdown. Frankie then caused a huge upset by defeating Russian superstar Aleksei Tishchenko, unbeaten in four years, to reach the final where he beat Italian Domenico Valentino 19:10.

2007 AIBA World Amateur championships held in Chicago

*Defeated Omar Ward (Barbados) RSC 3 (0:50)
*Defeated Merey Akshalov (Kazakhstan) 20-9
*Defeated Ramal Amanov (Azerbaijan) 21-10
*Defeated Onur Sipal (Turkey) 16-7
*Defeated Alexei Tichtchenko (Russia) 19-10
*Defeated Domenico Valentino (Italy) 18-10

He recently stepped up a weight and won the E.U. tournament in Poland receiving boxer of the tournament as well.As of 2007 he has won 100 of his 121 amateur contests.

2008 summer Olympics

Gavin was Great Britain's best hope of a boxing medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but was unable to make the weight and was therefore unable to compete. [cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/boxing/7546521.stm |title= Medal hope Gavin out of Olympics |accessdate=2008-08-07 |publisher=BBC News |date=2008-08-07 ]

Miscellanea

* Member of Hall Green boxing club in Birmingham
* Attended Archbishop Ilsley Catholic Technology College in Birmingham.
* One-time sparring partner of Olympic silver-medalist Amir Khan
* Birmingham city fan

References

External links

* [http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Participants/Participants?ID=103972 Biography and fight details from the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games website]