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Jamie Arthur
Jamie Arthur (born 17 December 1979) is a former professional boxer. Born in Scotland, Arthur moved to Wales at a young age and took up boxing. He was selected to represent Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester in the men's lightweight division. After winning his opening four bouts, Arthur defeated Denis Zimba in the gold medal match to become the first Welsh fighter to win gold at the games for more than 40 years. He turned professional in 2003 and won his first nine bouts, but persistent cut injuries and two consecutive defeats led to his retirement in 2005. He returned to boxing in 2008 and won the Welsh area super-featherweight title in his second fight before progressing to an unsuccessful British title fight against Martin Lindsay. He competed in the Prizefighter series in May 2010 at super-bantamweight but was eliminated in the semi-final. In May 2010, he won the vacant Commonwealth super-bantamweight title after defeating Kris Taylor, but lost the belt i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Bantamweight
Super bantamweight, also known as junior featherweight, is a weight class in professional boxing, contested from and up to . There were attempts by boxing promoters in the 1920s to establish this weight class, but few sanctioning organizations or state athletic commissions would recognize it. Jack Wolf won recognition as champion when he beat Joe Lynch at Madison Square Garden on September 21, 1922, but afterwards the weight division fell into disuse. The division was revived in the 1970s and the first title fight in 54 years in the division took place in 1976 when the World Boxing Council recognized Rigoberto Riasco as its champion when he defeated Waruinge Nakayama in eight rounds. The World Boxing Association crowned its first champion in 1977 when Soo Hwan Hong knocked out Hector Carasquilla in three rounds to win the inaugural WBA championship. In 1983 the International Boxing Federation sanctioned the bout between Bobby Berna and Seung-In Suh for its first title. Berna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Quigg
Scott Quigg (born 9 October 1988) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2020. He held the WBA super-bantamweight title from 2013 to 2016, and the British super-bantamweight title from 2011 to 2012. Personal life Quigg started his fight career as a child practising Muay Thai boxing at GFC Muay Thai in Bury. After receiving a lot of attention and being tipped as a future champion in the sport, Quigg had one adult fight at professional rules in Muay Thai scoring a win, before taking the decision to change disciplines and focus his talents towards amateur boxing. Professional boxing career Super-bantamweight Early career Quigg's professional debut came at the age of 18 on 21 April 2007 with a victory over Gary Shiel at the Jarvis Hotel in Manchester. Throughout the rest of the year he won on four more occasions giving him a record of 5–0 at the end of 2007. Quigg fought six more times in 2008, winning on each occasion, a run that included a vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes compete, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries, with 301 medal events in 28 different Olympic sports, sports. The 2004 Games marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance, and also marked the first time Athens hosted the Games since their first modern incarnation in 1896 Summer Olympics, 1896 as well as the return of the Olympic games to its birthplace. Athens became one of only four cities at the time to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games on two occasions (together with Paris, London and Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Warren (promoter)
Frank Warren (born 28 February 1952) is an English boxing coach (sport), manager and boxing promoter, promoter. Warren and his son George own and run Queensberry Promotions. Warren was also a founder of the British boxing television channel BoxNation. Frank Warren has promoted and managed world champions and top ranked fighters including Naseem Hamed, Frank Bruno, Tyson Fury, Josh Warrington, Joe Calzaghe, Nigel Benn, Billy Joe Saunders, Steve Collins, Chris Eubank, Amir Khan (boxer), Amir Khan and Ricky Hatton. Early life and early career The son of a bookmaker, Warren trained as a solicitor's clerk with J Tickle & Co on Southampton Row in London. Promoter Warren was approached by his second-cousin Lenny McLean who having just lost a fight and wanting a rematch, could not find a promoter. Warren agreed to become an unlicensed promoter, getting McLean a trainer who had worked with Chris Finnegan, and made the rematch at the Rainbow Theatre (Finsbury Park), Rainbow Theatre, Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 British Empire And Commonwealth Games
The 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (Welsh: Gemau Ymerodraeth Prydain a'r Gymanwlad 1958) were held in Cardiff, Wales, from 18–26 July 1958. Thirty-five nations sent a total of 1,130 athletes and 228 officials to the Cardiff Games and 23 countries and dependencies won medals, including, for the first time, Singapore, Ghana, Kenya and the Isle of Man. The Cardiff Games introduced the Queen's Baton Relay, which has been conducted as a prelude to every British Empire and Commonwealth Games ever since. Venues The British Empire and Commonwealth Games, including the opening and closing ceremonies, were held at the Cardiff Arms Park in the centre Cardiff. A new Wales Empire Pool was constructed for the event. The Sophia Gardens Pavilion was used for the boxing and wrestling events, and Maindy Stadium was used for track cycling. 178,000 tickets were eventually sold during the Games. Rowing took place on Llyn Padarn in Llanberis. File:Cardiff Arms Park and Millennium St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Winstone
Howard Winstone, MBE (15 April 1939 – 30 September 2000) was a Welsh world champion boxer, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. As an amateur, Winstone won the Amateur Boxing Association bantamweight title in 1958, and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. Boxing style In his early amateur days Winstone was very much a two-fisted fighter, but as a teenager, whilst working in a local toy factory, he lost the tips of three fingers on his right hand in an accident. As a result, he lost much of the punching power in his right hand and so had to change his style to rely much more on a straight left. Amateur career Winstone won 83 of his 86 amateur fights, and in 1958 he was the ABA bantamweight champion. Representing Wales at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Winstone won the gold medal at bantamweight. Winstone won the first of his three BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year awards the same year (1958) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Referee (boxing)
The referee in boxing is the individual charged with enforcing the rules of that sport during a match. The role of the referee The referee has the following roles: *Gives instructions to both boxers before the fight *Determines when to start or stop a count when a fighter is down *Determines when a foul is so egregious that a warning should be given or points taken away *Signals when the round is over *Determines when one fighter's health will be endangered by more blows, and thus, stops the fight. In the past, referees were involved in judging the fight. However, that role has been progressively replaced by a panel of judges, except for domestic fights in some countries. Attire Normally, a white or blue Oxford shirt is worn, as well as black slacks, black leather shoes and a black bow tie. Latex gloves are sometimes worn for sanitary reasons. For professional matches a patch is usually worn on the left breast bearing the insignia of the organization sanctioning the fight. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester Arena
Manchester Arena, currently referred to as the AO Arena for sponsorship reasons, is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the Manchester city centre, city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria station in air rights space. The arena has the highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in the United Kingdom, and List of indoor arenas in Europe, the second largest in Europe with a capacity of 21,000. The arena is one of the world's busiest indoor arenas, hosting music and sporting events such as boxing and swimming. Retrieved on 28 March 2008. The arena was a key part of Manchester's bids to host the Olympic Games in 1996 and Manchester bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 and was eventually used for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The arena was temporarily closed following Manchester Arena bombing, a terror attack on 22 May 2017, in which Suicide attack, suicide bomber Salman Abedi killed 22 people, and injured 500 more, at the end of an Ariana Grande c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Khunwane
Gilbert "Ghisto" Khunwane (born 15 June 1977 in Mmankgodi) is a male retired boxer from Botswana, who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the first round of the men's lightweight (– 60 kg) division by Mexico's eventual bronze medalist Cristian Bejarano. Khunwane won a bronze medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. He carried the flag for his native country at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and List of cities in Oceania by population, Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metro ... before retiring from the sport in 2005 to become a coach. He was Botswana national boxing team captain and assistant coach. He was appointed Vice President of the Botswana Boxing Association in February 2019. References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scaffolding
Scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance and repair of buildings, bridges and all other man-made structures. Scaffolds are widely used on site to get access to heights and areas that would be otherwise hard to get to. Unsafe scaffolding has the potential to result in death or serious injury. Scaffolding is also used in adapted forms for formwork and shoring, grandstand seating, concert stages, access/viewing towers, exhibition stands, ski ramps, half pipes and art projects. There are five main types of scaffolding used worldwide today. These are tube and coupler (fitting) components, prefabricated modular system scaffold components, H-frame / façade modular system scaffolds, timber scaffolds and bamboo scaffolds (particularly in China and India). Each type is made from several components which often include: * A base jack or plate which is a load-bearing base for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wales At The 2002 Commonwealth Games
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Wales was represented by the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales (CGCE). 228 athletes participated for Wales at the games. Medals , style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;", Gold * Jamie Arthur, Boxing – Lightweight 60 kg * Nicole Cooke, cycling – road race * Johanne Brekke & Ceri Dallimore, shooting – women's smallbore rifle, prone pairs * Michaela Breeze, weightlifting – 58 kg snatch * Dave Morgan, weightlifting – 77 kg clean and jerk * Dave Morgan, weightlifting – 77 kg combined Silver * Colin Jackson, athletics – 110 m hurdles * Matt Elias, athletics – 400 m hurdles * Iwan Thomas, Matt Elias, Jamie Baulch and Tim Benjamin, athletics – 4 × 400 m relay * Hayley Tullett, athletics – 1500 m * Huw Pritchard, cycling – 20 km scratch race * Adam Robertson & Ryan Jenkins, table tennis – men's doubles * Dave Morgan, weightlifting – 77 kg snatch * Michaela Breeze, weightliftin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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