By Canadian Press

Thibeault, Sanford officially named to Canada’s Olympic boxing team

Jul 2, 2024 | 10:27 AM

MONTREAL — Boxing Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have named Tammara Thibeault and Wyatt Sanford to Canada’s boxing team for this summer’s Paris Games.

The team was officially announced Tuesday. Sanford and Thibeault both earned Olympic spots by winning gold at the 2023 Pan American Games.

They will be the only boxers on the team Paris after all nine Canadians competing in an Olympic qualification tournament earlier this year in Bangkok failed to lock up another spot.

Thibeault, from Shawinigan, Que., will compete in the women’s 75-kilogram classification for the second straight Games.

She advanced to the quarterfinals at the Tokyo Games in 2021, matching Canada’s best Olympic result in any women’s boxing event.

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Sanford, from Kennetcook, N.S., will box in the men’s 63.5kg competition. He is appearing at his second Olympics after losing in the opening round in Tokyo.

Boxing will take place July 27 to Aug. 10 with preliminary rounds at the North Paris Arena and finals at Roland Garros Stadium.

Canada has won 17 Olympic boxing medals. The most recent was David Defiagbon’s silver medal won in the men’s heavyweight category from Atlanta 1996.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 2, 2024.

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