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Selby leads GB Boxing team into European Championships

London Olympian Andrew Selby will be bidding to defend his flyweight title as he leads a 13-strong GB Boxing team at the 2013 European Champions...

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McCracken claims boxers will learn from World Series setback

Great Britain performance director Rob McCracken is adamant his charges will emerge much better from the experience of the World Series of Boxin...

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Lionhearts edge towards World Series of Boxing semi-final

The British Lionhearts are knocking on the door of a World Series of Boxing semi-final spot after taking a 4-1 lead over Mexico Guerreros at Yor...

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Selby looking to stay undefeated in World Series of Boxing

London Olympian Andrew Selby insists he has no intention of tasting a first World Series of Boxing defeat of the campaign after being named in t...

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Selby looking to stay undefeated in World Series of Boxing

London Olympian Andrew Selby insists he has no intention of tasting a first World Series of Boxing defeat of the campaign after being named in t...

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Medal Record

London 2012
  • 0 Gold
  • 0 Silver
  • 0 Bronze

Biography

Dropping down from bantamweight to flyweight in 2010 after changes to the Olympic weight categories, Andrew Selby made history in 2011 when he and Fred Evans became the first Welsh boxers for 86 years to win European Championship gold. Selby defeated Russia’s Georgy Balakshin 13-10 in the final.

In October 2011, ‘The Welsh Wizard’ Selby lost in the World Championship final, 13-12 to Misha Aloyan of Russia but with Beijing Olympian Khalid Yafai also reaching the London 2012 qualifying standard, a box-off was required.

In November 2011 the pair met at York Hall in Bethnal Green with Selby winning the first match of a best-of- three contest 26-10 before Yafai failed to make the weight for the second bout, automatically handing the Welshman his 2012 place.

When fighting at bantamweight, Manchester United FC fan Selby won European bronze in 2008 in Liverpool and again in Moscow in 2010.