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Steven Rudic
Steve Rudic (born 21 January 1976 in Canberra) is an Australian boxer and Jiu-Jitsu practitioner best known for winning the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games 2006 in the men's super heavyweight division. A late starter to boxing, Steve was a former basketball player with the Canberra Cannons. He took up the sport at age 26 under the guidance of English born trainer Garry Hamilton and had just 26 fights with 18 wins before the Games. He beat massive Tongan Isekeli Maama but lost his semifinal to Welshman Kevin Evans. Following the Commonwealth Games he lost at the Australian Championships in Brisbane to the younger Daniel Beahan, who thus became the Australia's representative at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... Steven is a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 (cancelled due to World War II), have successively run every four years since. The Games were called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1966, and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974. Athletes with a disability are included as full members of their national teams since 2002, making the Commonwealth Games the first fully inclusive international multi-sport event. In 2018, the Games became the first global multi-sport event to feature an equal number of men's and women's medal events and four years later they are the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men. Inspired by the Inter-Empire Championships, part of the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
