Boxing Canada is excited to announce the final team selection for the Continental Championships being held from August 3rd to 10th in Cali, Columbia. This event is also a direct qualifier for the Pan Am Games scheduled for October 20-November 5, 2023 which is the first direct qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympics!

 

Forty-one boxers competed to fill thirteen spots in the six female and seven male divisions. The selection event was held  June 20th- 22nd at the National Training Center in Montreal.

 

Results are available here

Video streams of the bouts are here

 

The following athletes will be representing Canada in Cali:

 

Category	Boxer	Province/Ter	Home Club	Coach
50kg	Mckenzie Wright	ON	City Boxing Club	Jesse Sallows
54kg	Scarlett Delgado	ON	Destiny Boxing Club	Sydney Vanderpool, Gaetan Boutin
57kg	Marie Al-Ahmadieh	QC	Pound 4 Pound	Marie-Jeanne Parent & Samir El Mais, Vincent Auclair
60kg	Garinder Takhar	ON	King of the Ring	Ajaz Khan
66kg	Charlie Cavanagh	NB	Saint John Golden Gloves Boxing Club & National Training Centre	Vincent Auclair, Samir El Mais
75kg	Tammara Thibeault	QC	National Training Centre	Samir El Mais, Vincent Auclair
51kg	Justin Parina	ON	Kombat Arts Training Academy & National Training Centre	Socrates Celestial & Samir El Mais, Vincent Auclair
57kg	Victor Tremblay	QC	Rival Boxing Gym Rive Nord	Hugo Tremblay
63,5kg	Wyatt Sanford	NS	National Training Centre	Samir El Mais, Vincent Auclair
71kg	Junior Petanqui	QC	Pound 4 Pound & National Training Centre	Samir El Mais, Vincent Auclair
80kg	Keven Beausejour	QC	Club Champion	El Moustafa Lyousfi
92kg	Bryan Colwell	BC	Sooke Boxing Club	Kip Brenton
92+ kg	Jérôme Feujio	QC	National Training Centre	Samir El Mais, Vincent Auclair

“I would like to personally thank all the boxers who competed at this event as well as the coaches and clubs that supported them,” says Boxing Canada’s High Performance Director Kraig Devlin. “A further congratulations to the selected athletes moving on to represent Canada. I am confident we are fielding the best team possible at the Championships and they are well-placed to qualify for the Pam Am Games.”

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Posted on: August 2, 2023