Skye NICOLSON
Boxing
Skye NICOLSON - Schedule
| Time | Event | Status | ||
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Tue, 10 Apr
12:34
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Women's 57kg
Quarterfinal 3
AUS Skye NICOLSON
W
CMR Christelle Aurore NDIANG
L
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Finished |
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Fri, 13 Apr
18:49
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Women's 57kg
Semifinal 2
AUS Skye NICOLSON
W
CAN Sabrina AUBIN-BOUCHER
L
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Finished |
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Sat, 14 Apr
18:32
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Women's 57kg
Final Bout
NIR Michaela WALSH
L
AUS Skye NICOLSON
W
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Finished |
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CMR
CAN
NIRLegend
- L: Lost
- W: Winner
Biographical Information
Highlights:
| Year | Location | Event | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Astana, KAZ | Women's 64kg | 3 |
| 2012 | Qinhuangdao, CHN | Women's 57kg | R32 |
Occupation: Student, midwife (Athlete, Oct 2017)
Education: Midwifery at Griffith University, QLD, Australia
Languages spoken: English
Coach: PERSONAL: Wayne TOLTON (AUS) (eliteboxingchampionship.com.au, 20 Jul 2017)
Position style: Southpaw (goldcoastbulletin.com.au, 26 Apr 2016)
Sporting relatives:
Brother, Jamie (deceased), competed in the men's 57kg category in boxing at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. Brother, Tony, is a schoolboy national champion. Uncle, Allan, is a national boxing coach. (couriermail.com.au, 18 Jul 2017; couriermail.com.au, 11 Mar 2012)
Reason: "At first I was training for fitness, it never even crossed my mind that I would do boxing. I just started sparring with the boys and it just kept going from there." (abc.net.au, 11 Aug 2015)
Ambition: "Commonwealth Games is a definite goal for me, especially to be on the Gold Coast in our hometown." (abc.net.au, 11 Aug 2015) "To be Australia's first Olympic gold medal-winning boxer and then to win a world title." (eliteboxingchampionship.com.au, 20 Jul 2017)
Memorable: Taking a bronze medal in the 64kg category at the 2016 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan. (Athlete, Oct 2017)
PODIUM
Bronze medal in the 64kg category at the 2016 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan. (AIBA, 27 May 2016)
AWARDS
Elite Female Boxer of the Year and Best Queensland International Boxer of the Year in 2016. (goldcoastbulletin.com.au, 28 Nov 2016)
TRAGEDY
Her brother, Jamie, won bronze at the Auckland 1990 Commonwealth Games and was ranked number one in the world in 1991. He was killed, along with another brother, Gavin, in a car accident in New South Wales in February 1994. Has been told her boxing style is similar to her brother's. (goldcoastbulletin.com.au, 26 Apr 2016)
Social Media:
Legend
: Gold
: Silver
: Bronze- : Gold Medal Event
- : Bronze Medal Event
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