Chris Johnson (boxer)
Appearance
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Full name | Chris Omar Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | August 8, 1971 Manchester, Jamaica | (age 53)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chris Omar Johnson (born August 8, 1971) is a Jamaican-born boxer, who won a middleweight bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Canada.[1] He won the middleweight gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. He was inducted into Boxing Canada’s Hall of Fame, Class of 2019.[2]
Johnson was raised in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada with his three brothers, Greg, Wayne, and Kevin, and 2 sisters, Angelina, and Necoal.
Johnson trained 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.[3] In 2014, the Toronto Star profiled Michael Brandon, one of his boxers.[4]
Professional boxing record
1992 Summer Olympics results
- Defeated Mohamed Siluvangi (Zaire) TKO 3
- Defeated Stefan Trendafilov (Bulgaria) TKO 1
- Lost to Chris Byrd (USA) 3-17
References
- ^ "Chris Johnson". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. 18 September 2011. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
- ^ "Three athletes and two officials inducted into the 2019-2020 Boxing Canada Hall of Fame – Boxing Canada". Retrieved 2022-05-06.
- ^ "Women's Boxing: Natalie Brown Biography". www.womenboxing.com. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
- ^ Gillespie, Kerry (25 April 2014). "Road to Pan Am boxing glory begins at home for Michael Brandon". Toronto Star. Toronto ON. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ "Chris Johnson". BoxRec.
External links
- Boxing record for Chris Johnson from BoxRec (registration required)
- 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
- Chris Johnson at Olympics.com
- Chris Johnson at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)