Jarrod Fletcher

Jarrod Fletcher (b. 20 October 1983) is an Australian amateur boxer who won the Commonwealth Games 2006 at middleweight.

Career

Fletcher is from Hervey Bay, Queensland.His brothers Rob and Glen Fletcher were both Australian junior champions, he started boxing at age 10. He lost only four of 80 contests as a junior, and racked up six Australian titles junior and senior. His record book as of 2006 showed 120 victories, 21 losses. Fletcher spent two years in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport boxing school with Daniel Geale, the Gold medal welterweight at Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games.

At the Commonwealth Games Fletcher beat respected English Southpaw James DeGale and Canadian Adonis Stevenson who decked him to win the title.At the Oceania Champinoships he qualified for the Olympics. There he ran right into one of the favorites in Emilio Correa and lost 4:17. That was a rematch from 2 months earlier when Fletcher beat Correa on points in a pre-Olympic tournament.

External links

* [http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Participants/Participants?ID=0000109915 Bio]
* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/OceanianChampionships2008.html Oceania]