Billy Ward (Boxer)

Billy Joe Ward ( * July 16 1993 in Bundaberg, Queensland, † August 4, 2013 in Gladstone, Queensland) was an Australian boxer in the Light Flyweight (up to 49kg).

Career

The 1.63 m wide Ward visited the Miriam Vale Primary School, the Yarwun Primary School, Gladstone High School and the Australian Technical College in Gladstone. He began his athletic career as a gymnast and won 2004 junior title in the state of Queensland. In 2006 he moved to boxing, trained in Gladstone Amateur Boxing Club and won the following year the Australian Junior Title ( U17).

After him a disease on Ross River virus was thrown back in 2008, he returned in 2011 and came into the semifinal of the Australian U19 Championships flyweight. In 2012 he moved to the light flyweight and won both the Australian Championships and the oceanic qualifying tournament for the 2012 Olympics, which he qualified for this tournament. At the games themselves, but he was outclassed in the first round of the tournament from the Cubans Yosvany Veitía with 26:4 and landed with it along with the other losers in the first round at No. 17

Overview:

• 2012: 17th Place Summer Olympics
• 2012: 1st place Oceanian Olympic qualification
• 2012: 1st place Australian Championships
• 2011: 3rd Australian Youth Championship
• 2007: 1st place Australian Junior Championship

Private

In January 2013, Ward was sentenced to pay a fine after he was found in November 2012 when unauthorized boarding of a plot and had insulted the intervening police and assaulted in one case. On August 4, 2013 he committed suicide.