Stephen Sutherland (born 1990-08-19 in

Welwyn Garden City Welwyn Garden City ( ) is a town in Hertfordshire, England, north of London. It was the second garden city in England (founded 1920) and one of the first new towns (designated 1948). It is unique in being both a garden city and a new town and ...

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) is an Australian amateur boxer who qualified for the

2008 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 Nati ...

at flyweight. At the 2007 World Championships he still competed at light-flyweight where he lost to

Luis Yanez Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

. After moving up a class the 17year old from Victoria qualified for Beijing by winning the Oceanian Games 2008 but lost to

Walid Cherif Walid Cherif (born March 9, 1978) is a boxer from Tunisia, who won the gold medal in 2003 at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria. He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There he was beaten in th ...

2:14. Sutherland represented Australia at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing but bowed out in the first round. He was considered one of the best prospects in Australian boxing but has since stopped boxing. He was an

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scholarship holder.AIS at the Olympics

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutherland, Stephen Flyweight boxers Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic boxers for Australia 1990 births Australian Institute of Sport boxers Australian male boxers Sportspeople from Welwyn Garden City British emigrants to Australia