Joe Joyce (boxer)
 Joyce at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Joseph Joyce |
| Nationality |
 Great Britain England |
| Born |
19 September 1985 (age 31) London, England |
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) |
| Weight | 17 st (240 lb; 110 kg)[1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Boxing |
| Rated at | Super heavyweight |
Medal record
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Joseph "Joe" Joyce (born 19 September 1985) is a British amateur boxer.[2][3]
Early life
Born to a Scots-born Irish father and a mother of Nigerian ancestry, Joyce grew up in London and studied at Ernest Bevin College, based in Tooting.[1][4] He took up boxing at the age of 22, injuries having curtailed his interest in track and field athletics, and joined Earlsfield ABC, based in Earlsfield, London.[1]
Amateur career
He competed in the men's super heavyweight division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won the gold medal.[2] He also won the title at the 2015 European Games in Baku.[5]
Joyce won the super heavyweight class at the 2012 ABA Championships and 2012 GB Amateur Boxing Championships. He won the bronze in his class at the 2013 European Amateur Boxing Championships after getting KOd by defending Russian champion Sergei Kuzmin in the semifinal.[6] At the 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships he was KOd again, this time by unsung Algerian Hamza Beguerni.[7]
He had success during 2015 and 2016 in the World Series of Boxing, and in April 2016 won a gold medal at the European Olympic trials to qualify for the Olympics.[8][9] On 21 August 2016 Joyce won the silver medal in the super heavyweight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics, losing in the final, on a split decision to Tony Yoka of France.[10] It was the final medal won by Team GB at the Olympics.[10]
Outside the ring, he is a proficient artist, having graduated with a 2:1 degree in fine arts from Middlesex University.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Hubbard, Alan (2015) "Joe Joyce: Portrait of the artist as an Olympic boxer", The Independent, 28 March 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2016
- 1 2 "Joseph Joyce". Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ↑ "Joe Joyce eager to follow in footsteps of Lennox Lewis and grab Commonwealth glory". Daily Star. 2 August 2014.
- ↑ http://schoolsweek.co.uk/rio-olympics-2016-schools-praise-their-team-gb-medal-winners/
- ↑ "1.European Games — Baku, Azerbaijan — June 16-27 2015". Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
- ↑ "40.European Championships — Minsk, Belarus — June 1-8 2013". Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
- ↑ "17.World Championships — Almaty, Kazakhstan — October 14-26 2013". Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
- ↑ Gigney, George (2016) "British Lionhearts crush USA Knockouts to stay unbeaten", Boxing News, 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016
- ↑ "Olympic boxing: Joe Joyce qualifies for Rio 2016 with gold medal", BBC, 17 April 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016
- 1 2 "Rio Olympics 2016: Joe Joyce misses out on super-heavyweight gold as he loses final". BBC Sport. Retrieved 23 August 2016.