Charles Amos (born March 14, 1945) is a retired Guyanese boxer. He represented

Guyana at the 1968 Summer Olympics Guyana competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. The Games were hosted from October 13 through October 20, with 1,028 participants (785 men and 243 women) representing 92 countries. They fielded five competitors, all men. Res ...

in the middleweight division, losing his opening bout to

Wiesław Rudkowski Wiesław Ksawery Rudkowski (17 November 1946 – 14 February 2016) was a Polish boxer and Olympic silver medalist. He lost the gold medal match to Dieter Kottysch Dieter Kottysch (30 June 1943 – 9 April 2017) was a German amateur mi ...

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. He is the father of professional boxer

Troy Amos-Ross Troy Amos-Ross (born July 17, 1975) is a Guyanese-Canadian boxer. As an amateur, he competed in the light heavyweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Personal life He is the son of ...

, who competed for

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

in the light heavyweight (< 81 kg) division at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

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, Georgia and

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, and uncle to retired professional boxer

Egerton Marcus Egerton Marcus (born February 2, 1965) is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2007. As an amateur, he won the silver medal in the middleweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Early life Egerton is the ...

, who won the silver medal competing for

in the middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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