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| Born | October 20, 2001 [1] Sligo, Ireland [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Light welterweight, Lightweight, Featherweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sean McDermott Boxing Club [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dean Clancy OLY (born 20 October 2001) is an Irish amateur boxer who won a gold medal at light welterweight at the 2021 European Under-22 Championships and bronze at the 2023 European Games. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Having started boxing aged eight, Clancy had his first exhibition bout at nine-years-old during which he stopped his opponent in round two. [3] [4]
He was 13 when he won his first Irish schoolboys’ title [3] [4] with his maiden international honours coming at the 2017 European Junior Championship where he took a silver medal. [3] [4] [5]
It was silver again at the 2018 European Youth Championships [3] [4] [5] before a fourth-place finish at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lost a box-off for the bronze medal against England's Hopey Price. [3] [4]
Only weeks after his 18th birthday, Clancy won his first Irish national elite title, defeating Patryk Adamus via split decision in the featherweight final in November 2019. [3] [4] [6]
After winning four fights in six days to reach the final at the 2021 European Under-22 Championships in Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy, including beating number 3 seed Nenad Javanovic of Serbia, Clancy won gold when his opponent for the decider, Ahmad Shtiwi from Israel, failed to show-up due to injury therefore handing him the victory by walkover. [3] [4] [7] [8]
Moving into senior international competition, he won a bronze medal in the light welterweight division at the 2023 European Games in Poland, losing to French world champion Sofiane Oumiha in the semi-finals. The result was enough to secure him qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [3] [4] [9]
Clancy lost in the quarter-finals to Malik Hasanov from Azerbaijan at the 2024 European Amateur Boxing Championships. [10] [11] [12]
Clancy's Olympic place was officially confirmed when Ireland named their boxing team on 28 June 2024. [13] [14] He was drawn to fight Obada Al-Kasbeh from Jordan in the first round on the opening day of the boxing tournament, [15] losing by 3-2 split decision despite his opponent being given a point deduction. [16] [17] [18]
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