Anthony Little (born 6 November 1980 in Mullewa, Western Australia) is an Australian amateur lightweight boxer. Little is a left-handed boxer from Geraldton, Western Australia who started boxing at the age of 13. He was named Aboriginal Sports Star of the Year in 2000, 2001 and 2002 and was the first indigenous boxer from Western Australia to compete at the Olympics.

Career

At the

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), ...

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, Little beat

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n Taoufik Chobba in the opening round but suffered a TKO loss to Murat Khrachev in his second bout. He won the 2006 Commonwealth Games qualifier, beating Leonardo Zappavigna despite having a broken left hand but wasn't selected for the Games team due to the injury. A positive test to marijuana is also believed to have affected his selection. He bounced back, however, at the Oceanian Games to qualify for 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 ...

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. At Beijing he beat Namibian

Julius Indongo Julius Munyelele Indongo (born 12 February 1983) is a Namibian professional boxer. He is a former unified light-welterweight world champion, having held the WBA (Unified), IBF, and IBO titles between 2016 and 2017. As an amateur, Indongo rep ...

14:2 but lost to Russian favorite

Aleksei Tishchenko Aleksei Viktorovich Tishchenko (russian: Алексей Викторович Тищенко; born 29 May 1984) is a former Russian Olympic boxer best known to dominate the lower weight classes in the last years winning numerous tit ...

3:11. He was an

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...

scholarship holder.AIS at the Olympics

References

Bio

Australian Olympic Committee profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Little, Anthony Lightweight boxers 1980 births Living people Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Australia Indigenous Australian Olympians People from Mullewa, Western Australia Australian Institute of Sport boxers Indigenous Australian boxers Australian male boxers