Peter McGrail (born 31 May 1996) is a British professional boxer who as an

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won gold at the

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Amateur career

In 2014, he won bronze medals in the Youth Olympic Games and World Youth Championships. He won the 2016

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British featherweight title. In 2015, he won silver in the EUBC European Confederation U22 Boxing Championships. In 2017, he became European champion and went on to claim bronze in the World Championships. and the following year in 2018, he won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games held in the Gold Coast. In 2019, McGrail was selected to compete at the European Games in Minsk, Belarus. He also competed at the World Championships in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where he won the bronze medal after losing by split decision (4:1) to Lázaro Álvarez in the semifinals. He represented Great Britain at the

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, but was eliminated in the preliminary round of 32.

Professional boxing record

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* * * * * 1996 births Living people British male boxers English male boxers Featherweight boxers Olympic boxers of Great Britain Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Boxers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games European Games bronze medalists for Great Britain European Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2019 European Games AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Boxers from Liverpool Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{England-boxing-bio-stub