- Chris Johnson (boxer)
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Chris Johnson (boxer) Personal information Born August 8, 1971 Medal recordMen’s Boxing Competitor for 
CanadaOlympic Games Bronze 1992 Barcelona Middleweight World Amateur Championships Bronze 1991 Sydney Middleweight Commonwealth Games Gold 1990 Auckland Middleweight Pan American Games Silver 1991 Havana Middleweight Chris Omar Johnson (born August 8, 1971 in Manchester, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born boxer, who won a middleweight bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Canada. In 1990 he won the gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
Chris was raised in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada with his three brothers, Greg, Wayne, and Kevin, and 2 sisters, Angelina, and Necoal.
Presently, Chris is the trainer of IBF Junior Featherweight World Champion, Steve "The Canadian Kid" Molitor, in addition to notable boxers such as Andrew Singh Kooner, and Natalie "Too Bad" Brown.
1992 Summer Olympics Results
- Defeated Mohamed Siluvangi (Zaire) TKO 3
- Defeated Stefan Trendafilov (Bulgaria) TKO 1
- Lost to Chris Byrd (USA) 3-17
External links
- Professional boxing record for Chris Johnson from BoxRec
- Chris Johnson's Fighting Alliance
- Sparring for student success 2008 Toronto Star article on pilot program for middle school students at Toronto District School Board's Charles H. Best Middle School
Commonwealth Boxing Champions in Men's Middleweight 1930 – 1938: up to 72.57 kg • 1950: up to 73 kg • 1954 – 2006: up to 75 kg 1930: Fred Mallin (ENG) • 1934: Alf Shawyer (ENG) • 1938: Denis Reardon (WAL) • 1950: Theunis van Schalkwyk (RSA) • 1954: Johannes van der Kolff (RSA) • 1958: Terry Milligan (NIR) • 1962: Cephas Colquhoun (JAM) • 1966: Joe Darkey (GHA) • 1970: John Conteh (ENG) • 1974: Frankie Lucas (VIN) • 1978: Philip McElwaine (AUS) • 1982: Jimmy Price (ENG) • 1986: Rod Douglas (ENG) • 1990: Chris Johnson (CAN) • 1994: Ron Donaldson (CAN) • 1998: John Pearce (ENG) • 2002: Paul Miller (AUS) • 2006: Jarrod Fletcher (AUS)
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- Boxers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Boxers at the 1991 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Canada
- Canadian boxers
- Canadian boxing trainers
- Jamaican boxers
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- People from Kitchener, Ontario
- Canadian people of Jamaican descent
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Sportspeople from Ontario
- People from Manchester Parish
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Pan American Games competitors for Canada
- Jamaican sportspeople stubs
- Caribbean boxing biography stubs
- Canadian boxing biography stubs
- Canadian Olympic medalist stubs
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