Gabriel Dossen
Gabriel Dossen | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 29 November 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||||
| Other names | Black Assassin | ||||||||||||||
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| Weight(s) | Middleweight | ||||||||||||||
| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||
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Gabriel Dossen (born 29 November 1999)[1] is an Irish amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 2022 European Championships.[2][3][4]
Boxing career[edit]
Dossen fights out of the southpaw stance.[5] He currently fights under the Olympic Boxing Club in Galway having formerly fought with the Furbo Boxing Club in Spiddal.[4]
Dossen won bronze in the 2016 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships as a light welterweight and bronze at the 2017 EUBC European Youth Championships.[6] On 30 May 2022, he won middleweight gold at the 2022 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Yerevan, Armenia.[7][8]
Personal life[edit]
Dossen was born in Ivory Coast and moved to Ireland at a young age.[2][9][10][7] He currently lives in the Knocknacarra area of Galway where he works at Tesco and is a business studies student at Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest.
References[edit]
- ^ "AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships 2016" (PDF). iba.sport. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ a b "BoxRec: Login". Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "Gold for Ireland as Ireland's Gabriel Dossen becomes the new European middleweight champion". independent.
- ^ a b "Gold for new European champion Gabriel Dossen". The Irish Times.
- ^ Leahy, Ed (23 May 2022). "Dossen opens Ireland account with European win" – via www.rte.ie.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships 2016. Medallist by Weight Category" (PDF). iba.sport. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ a b Wright, Rob (30 May 2022). "Dossen grabs gold at European Championships" – via www.rte.ie.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Galvin, T. J. (30 May 2022). "Gold for Galway's Gabriel Dossen in European Championships". Irish Examiner.
- ^ Casey, Gavan (30 May 2022). "Galway's Gabriel Dossen wins gold at European Championships". The42.
- ^ Glennon, Stephen. "Galway fighter floors the odds in lifting Irish crown". connachttribune.ie.