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Andrew Kooner

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Andrew Kooner
Personal information
Full nameAndrew Singh Kooner
NationalityCanadian
Born (1979-05-11) 11 May 1979 (age 45)
Kettering, Northamptonshire
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classFlyweight and Bantamweight
ClubWindsor Amateur Boxing Club
Medal record
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2002 Manchester Bantamweight
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Santo Domingo Bantamweight

Andrew Singh Kooner (born 11 May 1979 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England) is a Canadian boxer and trainer, currently living in Toronto.

Amateur career

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Andrew Kooner moved to Tecumseh, Ontario at a young age and began boxing at age 13 out of a Windsor boxing club. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he lost in the 2nd round in the flyweight division. He won a bronze medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games; and the silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he finished tied for fifth in the bantamweight (54 kg) division[1] after having qualified at the 1st AIBA American 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Tijuana, Mexico. He also defeated Juan Manuel López in the amateurs.[2]

Olympic results

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2000 Olympics

2004 Olympics

Pro career

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Kooner turned pro in 2006 and has a 10-2 Record and is the current bantamweight champion of Canada.

Post Boxing

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Andrew Kooner currently resides in Toronto and runs his own fitness program, Kooner's Boxing, providing specialized training ranging from fitness to well-being to training up-and-coming boxers. He is also a coach for Rock Steady Boxing, a program that gives people with Parkinson’s disease hope by improving their quality of life through a non-contact boxing-based fitness curriculum.

References

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  1. ^ "Andrew Kooner". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  2. ^ 1st AIBA American 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament
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