Achievements:
- 2022 European Championships – Silver
- 2022 Commonwealth Games - Silver
Inspired by fellow Sunderland born boxer Tony Jeffries’ light-heavyweight bronze medal at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, Kiaran began his career aged nine when he stepped foot inside Sunderland ABC.
Kiaran has been a member of the GB Boxing for over six years having joined the squad following a successful assessment he earned after winning back-to-back England Boxing National Amateur Championships in both 2016 and 2017.
As well as representing the British Lionhearts in World Series of Boxing (WSB) in both 2017 and 2018 Kiaran has won gold medals at the Socikas and Belgrade Winner during his time as GB Boxer and has also competed at the Strandja, just missing out on the medal stages on that occasion.
His first selection for a major competition came in September 2021 when he was among the squad of nine men who travelled to Serbia for the World Championships however, he was handed a tough opponent in his opening bout, Rio 2016 silver medallist Yuberjen Martinez, and was unable to progress to the latter stages.
In 2022, Kiaran put together a fine run of performances at the European Championships in Armenia, winning three times on the way to securing flyweight silver and his first major medal.
He did the same a few months later at the Commonwealth Games where once again he had to settle for silver having reached the 51kg final, this time beaten by 2019 World champion, Amit Panghal of India.
Kiaran describes his style as flashy, fancy, and explosive.
Achievements:
- 2022 Commonwealth Games - Bronze
Achievements
- 2019 England Boxing National Championships – Gold
- 2021 Tokyo Olympics European Qualifier - Silver
- Tokyo 2020 (held in 2021) - R16
- 2023 European Games - Bronze
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As mum to three young children, Charley, balances boxing with motherhood and has enjoyed a meteoric rise since returning to the sport in 2018, following a seven-year break, which has seen her earn a place in the GB Boxing squad and qualify for the Olympic Games.
Having initially started boxing at the age of eight, Charley enjoyed domestic success and international recognition as a youth boxer before taking a break from the sport at the age of 19 to have her children.
She restarted training in 2018 and went on to enjoy immediate success and in May 2019 she won the England Boxing National Championships at bantamweight (54kg).
The win secured her an assessment with the GB Boxing squad in which Charley impressed the coaches despite her long lay-off from the sport. Although she boxed at bantamweight, which is not an Olympic weight, the GB Boxing team felt that with the right support she had the potential to compete successfully at flyweight (51kg), which is an Olympic weight class.
Charley initially joined the squad as part of the Podium Potential group in December 2019 and after impressing at a multi-national training camp in America at the start of 2020 she was selected to compete at the first Olympic qualifying event in London in March 2020.
Although the event was suspended after two days owing to the Coronavirus outbreak, Charley was one of the few boxers from Great Britain that did get to compete and she recorded an impressive unanimous points victory over Ireland’s 2018 Commonwealth Games silver medallist, Carly McNaul.
She completed her incredible journey to qualify for the Olympic Games at the Boxing Road to Tokyo qualifier in Paris in June 2021. She defeated Poland’s Sandra Drabik to secure her place at Tokyo and finished the tournament with a silver medal.
In Tokyo, Charley put in an impressive display in her opening bout against Rabab Cheddar of Morocco but unfortunately exited the competition at the last 16 stage following defeat to China's Chang Yuan.
After her incredible achievement in getting to Tokyo 2020 after a seven year break, Charley set her sights on becoming a two-time Olympian and qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, a feat she achieved in the summer of 2023 after earning a bronze medal at the European Games in Krakow, Poland.
Speaking after securing her place at Paris 2024, Davison said: “Honestly, I can’t believe it. It’s going to take time to sync in. It means so much more to me. I feel more experienced and believe that I can go to the top.
“It’s my dream to become Olympic champion. I went to Tokyo with little experience, but I’ve banked a lot more since so it’s different now."
Achievements
- 2022 U22 European Championships - Bronze
Elise began boxing at the age of 13 after surprising her father with an interest in the sport having before that taken up hobbies of horse riding and cheerleading as well as entering beauty pageants.
Initially not welcome in her local gym by male members of the gym, Birmingham-born Glynn didn’t let that deter her though, having her first bout after just six weeks.
Her youth career included wining gold at the European Junior Championships in 2017 as well as being crowned featherweight champion at the National Amateur Championships in 2022.
That performance earned her an assessment with GB Boxing and after impressing during that trial period, she was initially offered a place on the academy programme.
However, she was quickly fast-tracked to the podium squad after an impressive display at the Balkan tournament where she went head-to-head with Italy’s world silver medallist, Irma Testa.
She was then selected for both the women’s European Championships and European Games where once again she met Testa, narrowly losing on both occasions.
Despite the setbacks, Elise went on to win gold at the 2023 Cologne Boxing Cup as well as silver at the World Boxing Cup: GB Open in January 2024.
A month later she was selected for the first World Olympic qualifying event and after winning her first two bouts, was beaten at the quarter-final stage by Turkey’s Esra Yildiz.
Most recently, she won gold at the second edition of the World Boxing Cup, which was this time held in Colorado, America.
Achievements
- 2016 Women’s European Championships – Silver
- 2018 Commonwealth Games – Silver
- 2022 Commonwealth Games - Gold
- 2023 European Games - Bronze
Rosie fell in love with the sport of boxing following her very first boxercise class in Caldicot and became obsessed with the Olympics after watching the likes of Nicola Adams and Katie Taylor at London 2012.
At 16 and after much persistence, Rosie joined Chepstow ABC where she went on to have her first bout where she won the novice Welsh title.
Two years later in 2018, she joined the full time boxing programme and in the same year, also took silver at the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia, which catapulted her name into the sport.
In 2020, she was selected for the first Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifier in London but unfortunately was beaten in her opening bout by Russia's Saadat Dalgatova and suffered even greater heartbreak when her the second qualifier was cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
During this period, Rosie was handed further setbacks as she not only caught the illness on three occasions but also suffered significant nerve damage which kept her out of the ring for a period of time.
However, she did not let the setbacks deter her as she fought her way back to peak fitness in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where this time she went one better than her previous outing, as she won gold, crowning her welterweight champion.
She then continued where she left off in 2023 as she finally was able to realise her Olympic dream after beating Ireland's World, European and Commonwealth champion Amy Broadhurst in impressive style at the European Games in Poland to qualify for a place at Paris 2024.
Rosie ended that tournament with a bronze medal, only losing to the eventual gold medallist Busenaz Surmeneli.
Speaking after qualifying, she said: “I’ve got no words! After everything that has happened, I thought this was too good to happen to me.
"I’ve kept coming back, grinding, and waiting and at times it felt like this was just impossible!
“Since I was eight, I’ve had a dream and at 16 I began boxing, we’re now a decade down the road and here we are. There are so many people to thank that have played their part along the way; my local club, Welsh Boxing, GB Boxing with all of the coaches and the support staff – I’m so grateful.”
Kerry played a range of sport when she was growing up. She began playing football aged just five, but combat sport is in Davis’ blood, as her mother competed in karate for England. Despite trying her hand at the martial art, she found her strengths and passion in boxing aged 14 believing that the best bit about the sport is that you get out what you put in.
2018 was a year to remember for Kerry as not only did she win her major title at the National Amateur Championships, but it was that victory which her earned an assessment with GB Boxing which she successfully passed, joining the programme officially in October of that year.
After suffering a foot injury shortly after joining the programme and with the delay of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kerry’s first chance to box as a senior came at the Balkan tournament in Bulgaria where she beat France’s Davina Michel in the final to win gold. She then repeated her gold medal feat at the 2022 Bocskai.
Kerry was selected for her first major in 2022, attending the Women’s World Championships in Istanbul where she would win two of her three bouts, narrowly losing her quarter-final bout to just miss out on a medal.
In December 2021, Kerry raised almost £6,000 by organising a 300-mile watt-bike ride, which both GB Boxers, coaches and support staff took part in, to raise money to buy an electric wheelchair for her friend suffering with multiple sclerosis.
Kerry competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where she reached the quarter-final stage.