Peter Joseph Hanlon (born 13 April 1959 in Dublin) is a retired British boxer.

Boxing career

Hanlon won the 1979 and 1981 Amateur Boxing Association British featherweight titles, when boxing out of the Gloucester ABC. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. At the Olympics, he beat

Antonio Esparragoza Antonio Esparragoza Betancourt (born 2 September 1959) is a Venezuelan former boxer who is a former WBA Featherweight Champion of the World. Amateur career Esparragoza represented Venezuela as a Featherweight at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games ...

of Venezuela, before losing to

Viktor Rybakov Viktor Grigorievich Rybakov (russian: Виктор Григорьевич Рыбаков) (born May 28, 1956 in Magadan) is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR twice at the Summer Olympics during his career as an Olympian. He ...

of the Soviet Union in the last 16. He represented

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and won a silver medal in the featherweight division, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in

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, Australia.

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* 1959 births Living people British male boxers Olympic boxers of Great Britain Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Boxers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Featherweight boxers 20th-century British people 21st-century British people {{UK-boxing-bio-stub