James DeGale
Boxing
71-75kg (Middleweight)
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Date of Birth: |
03/02/1986 |
| Lives: |
London |
| Born: |
London |
| Country of Birth: |
England |
| Height: |
183 |
| Weight: |
76 |
| Club: |
Dale Youth |
| Coach: |
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| Occupation: |
Athlete |
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James DeGale represented Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the Middleweight boxing event, winning gold. In the quarterfinals, he beat a former Olympic gold medalist from Athens (Bakhtiyar Artayev) and in the semi-final once again beat the Irishman Darren Sutherland (prior to this latest meeting the boxers had fought five times with Sutherland winning four and DeGale only one). In the final DeGale won, a scrappy and bad tempered affair against the Cuban Emilio Correa who was deducted two points in the first round for biting DeGale's shoulder.
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WCh: 1st rd (-75kg) Chicago USA Nov 07. CG: bronze for ENG (-75kg) Melbourne AUS Mar 06. 1st Eur OG qual tment: gold (-75kg) Pescara ITA Feb 08. ABACh: gold (midwt) London GBR Mar 05; gold (midwt) London GBR Dec 05. CCh: gold (-75kg) Glasgow GBR Aug 05. WJCh: qf (-75kg) KOR Jun 04. CYG: gold for ENG (-75kg) Bendigo AUS Dec 04.