| Gabriel Dossen | ||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Black Assassin | |||||||||||||
| Weight(s) | Middleweight | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Irish | |||||||||||||
| Born | 29 November 1999 Ivory Coast | |||||||||||||
| 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]
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]
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.
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