Thomas Corr ( eng. Thomas Corr ; b. July 9, 1962 ) - Irish boxer , a representative of the middle weight categories. He played for boxing teams of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the first half of the 1980s, a bronze medalist at the World Championships, winner of a bronze medal of the Commonwealth Games, a participant in the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles .
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| Citizenship |  Great Britain  Ireland | |||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | July 9, 1962 (57 years) | |||||||||||||
| Weight category | Average (75 kg) | |||||||||||||
| Growth | 178 cm | |||||||||||||
| Team | Clonoe boxing club | |||||||||||||
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Biography
Tom Corr was born on July 9, 1962. He trained at the boxing club in Dungannon , Northern Ireland .
He achieved the first serious success at the international level in the 1982 season when he became the national boxing champion, joined the main team of the Irish national team and attended the World Championships in Munich , from which he won a bronze medal award won in the first middle weight category - at semi-finals was stopped by Soviet boxer Alexander Koshkin . Later that year, he represented Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane , where he also became a bronze medalist - here in the semifinals he was defeated by Canadian Sean O'Sullivan .
In 1983, Corr once again won the Irish Middleweight Championship. Participated in the European Championship in Varna , losing in the quarterfinals to Romanian Gheorghe Simion.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles - in the category up to 75 kg, the first opponent in the tournament grid successfully passed, while in the second fight in the 1/8 final, with a score of 1: 4, he lost to Nigerian Jerry Okorodudu .
After the Olympics, Tom Corr continued to perform in amateur boxing, but he no longer achieved any significant achievements in the international arena. In 1987 he became the silver medalist of the Irish Championship in Dublin, losing in the finals to light heavyweight Jim O'Sullivan [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Based on amateur-boxing.strefa.pl database
Links
- Tommy Corr - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Thomas Corr (Eng.) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee