- Anthony Little
Anthony Little (born 6 November 1980) is an
Australia n amateur lightweight boxer who will compete in his second Olympics in Beijing. Little is asouthpaw fromGeraldton, Western Australia who started boxing at the age of 13. He was named Aboriginal Sports Star of the Year in 2000, 2001 and 2002 and was the first indigenous boxer from Western Australia to compete at the Olympics.Career
At the
2004 Summer Olympics inAthens , Little beatTunisia n Taoufik Chobba in the opening round but suffered aTKO loss toMurat Khrachev in his second bout.He won the 2006 Commonwealth Games qualifier, beating
Leonardo Zappavinga despite having a broken left hand but wasn't selected for the Games team due to the injury. A positive test to marijuana is also believed to have affected his selection. He bounced back, however, at the Oceanian Games to qualify for the2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing .At Beijing he beat Namibian
Julius Indongo 14:2 but lost to Russian favoriteAleksei Tishchenko 3:11.External links
* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/OceanianChampionships2008.html Oceanians 2008]
* [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/aus/Anthony+Little/1723667 Bio]
* [http://www.fighter-online.com/WE04JUl05/littlegoestograss.html Drug problems]
* [http://www.olympics.com.au/Athletes/TheTeam/tabid/343/Athletes/TheTeam/tabid/344/Default.aspx?cId=14371&teamId=35 Australian Olympic Committee profile]
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