Darren O'Neill

Darren O'Neill (born 13 September 1985) is an Irish boxer. He became in 2010 Vice European Champion and participants of the 2012 Olympics at middleweight.

Career

Darren O'Neill began as a teenager in his hometown of Paul, County Kilkenny, with the boxes. To this end, he became a member of the Town Paul Kilkenniy Club. In the junior level he could not achieve great results. He first made ​​in 2005 at the Irish Senior Championships attention to himself when he reached the final at light heavyweight, where he delivered the experienced Kenneth Egan a good fight and only lost on points.

In 2005 he already drew attention to himself in a major international boxing tournament. On the Multi - Nations Tournament in Ballybunion he fought in the light heavyweight division until the final, where he lost to the Russians Artur Beterbijew on points.

2006 Darren O'Neill was again defeated at the Irish Championship light heavyweight in the finals of Kenneth Egan by points ( 12:21 ). In two adjoining countries fighting against Poland, he defeated each prematurely in Dublin and Loughera Sebastian Rzadkiewicz. He was then also used in the 2006 European Championship in Plovdiv and fought there in the middleweight division with wins over Sergei Golovanov from Israel and Dimitri Serjcek from the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, in which he but lost to Fundo Mhura from Scotland and thus the 5th to the place came.

In 2007, Darren O'Neill because of an injury not participate in the Irish Championships. In 2008, he was there again at the start, but lost the final of the middleweight against Darren Sutherland by points ( 15:21 ). Instead, he got another chance to fight against Darren Sutherland at the Irish launch site at the Olympic Games in Beijing. He was defeated in this battle but again on points ( 8:15 ). In the following the Olympic Games to be held in Liverpool European Championships, he was employed at light heavyweight. He lost there but just his first fight against Niklajs Grisunis from Latvia by points ( 5:11 ) and got away with it, along with all losing his round on the 9th Place.

In 2009, Darren O'Neill with a points victory over Stephen O'Reilly first time Irish champion at middleweight. At the World Championships this year in Milan he won over Rajan Silpakar from Nepal by termination in the 2nd round and Stipica Brekalo from Croatia convincingly on points ( 19:3 ). In the second round, but he was defeated by the Armenian Andranik Hakobyan on points ( 3:7 ), which he resigned and came to 9th place.

In 2010 he was with a points victory over Jason Quigley again Irish middleweight champion. At the European Championships in Moscow, he struggled with point victories over Ronald Gavril, Romania (4-2 ), Anthony Ogogo, England (10:1), Serhiy Derewjantschenko, Ukraine ( 7:6 ) and Mladen Manew, Bulgaria ( 6:0 ) up to the final, where he defeated the Russian Artem Chebotarew by points ( 6:17 ). However, the profit of the European vice-champion title was a great success for Darren O'Neill.

His third Irish championship titles won Darren O'Neill 2011. He hit play in the final turn, Jason Quigley on points ( 7:4 ). At the European Championships in Ankara, he came to point victories over Dennis Radovan, Germany (16:9) and Victor Cotiujanschi from Moldova ( 14:12). In the quarterfinals, but he was defeated by Dimitri Mitrofanov from Ukraine ( 10:17 ), which he finished 5th. In the same year he also took part in the world championships and retired here after victories over Glodi Eneste, Norway ( 16:5 ), Mohamed HIKAL, Egypt ( 15:13 ), and Mladen Manev, Bulgaria ( 19:12 ), in the quarterfinals against the later silver medalist Ryota Murata, Japan ( 18:9 ), from.

With this result, O'Neill also qualified for the 2012 Olympics, where he claimed a win over Muideen Akamji, Nigeria ( 15:6 ), in the second round against Stefan Härtel, Germany ( 19:12 ), was eliminated.

International success

Irish Championships

Countries fighting

Notes

  • WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship,
  • Middleweight, up to 75 kg, light heavyweight, to 81 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journal The sport of boxing,
  • Site " amateur boxing.strefa.pl "
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