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词条 Natasha Jonas
释义

  1. Amateur career

     2012 AIBA Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships  2012 Olympic Games 

  2. Personal life

  3. In The Media

  4. References

  5. External links

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| realname = Natasha Paula Jonas
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| weight = Lightweight ({{cvt|60|kg|disp=or}})
| height = {{cvt|5|ft|7|in|cm}}
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| nationality = {{flagicon|ENG}} English
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|6|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Liverpool, England
| website = {{URL|natashajonas.co.uk}}
| style = Southpaw
| total = 8
| wins = 7
| KO = 5
| losses = 1
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| medaltemplates ={{MedalSport | Women's amateur boxing }}{{MedalCountry | {{GBR}} }}{{MedalCompetition | World Amateur Championships }}{{MedalBronze | 2012 Qinhuangdao | Lightweight }}
}}Natasha Jonas (born 18 June 1984) is an English professional boxer from Liverpool, England, who competed as an amateur in the {{cvt|60|kg}} lightweight division and represented Rotunda ABC & GB Boxing. She was ranked #5 in the AIBA world rankings.{{update inline|date=July 2015}} In 2012, Jonas became the first female British boxer to fight at the Olympic Games.[1]

Amateur career

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Jonas took up boxing in 2005 and by 2010 she had won five ABA Championships in the 64 kg Division for Liverpool club Rotunda ABC.[2] In November 2009 she became the first female boxer to compete for GB Boxing. In the same year she claimed gold in the 64 kg division at the 2009 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, after she overcame Csilla Csejtei of Hungary in the final. Jonas another gold medal in the inaugural GB Amateur Boxing Championships in 2010, when she pipped rival Amanda Coulson by one point in an exciting bout in front of her home fans at Liverpool's Echo Arena.

2012 AIBA Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships

Jonas made history in Qinhuangdao, China in May 2012, when she reached the semi-finals of the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships to become the first ever female British boxer to qualify for an Olympic Games, she then went on to take the bronze medal and a place in the 2012 London Olympics back to Liverpool with her.

2012 Olympic Games

Jonas became the first ever British female boxer to compete at an Olympic Games. Jonas faced Quanitta Underwood of the United States in the round of 16, Jonas emphatically beat Underwood, 21:13 winning three of the four rounds boxed.[3] Her wins set up a quarter-final bout with four-time World Champion, and Ireland's flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony, Katie Taylor.[3] Jonas lost to Taylor 26:15.[4]

Personal life

Initially intending to be a footballer, Jonas spent eighteen months at St. Peter's College in the United States on a football scholarship,[5] before returning to the United Kingdom and studying media studies at Edge Hill University, Lancashire. She was employed for five years by Liverpool City Council and was a mentor for the Youth Sport Trust for four years, helping to promote sport and healthy lifestyles to school-age children.[6]

Jonas is an older sister of footballer Nikita Parris.[7]

In The Media

In July 2012, Jonas appeared alongside Tom Stalker and James Dickens in Channel 4 documentary, Knockout Scousers, which followed her to Czech Republic and China on her pursuit for Olympic qualification, a production which she also narrated.

References

1. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/boxing/32196444 |title=Natasha Jonas retires: British Olympic boxer quits aged 30 |date=7 April 2015 |publisher=BBC Sport |first=Jessica |last=Creighton}}
2. ^{{Cite web |url=http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/boxing/1027891/n_jonas.html |title=Commonwealth Games Biography – Natasha Jonas |date=8 August 2014 |accessdate=17 August 2015 |website= |publisher= |last= |first=}}
3. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/05/olympic-womens-boxing-natasha-jonas-wins |title=Olympic women's boxing: Natasha Jonas wins Britain's first female bout |work=The Guardian |accessdate=22 July 2015}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/06/olympic-womens-boxing-taylor-britain-jonas |title=Olympic women's boxing: Katie Taylor beats Britain's Natasha Jonas |work=The Guardian |accessdate=22 July 2015}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/london-2012-natasha-jonas-is-fighting-1163229 |title=Proving her worth: Natasha Jonas is fighting for Team GB, for herself and to demonstrate that women's boxing is here to stay |newspaper=Daily Mirror |date=24 July 2012 |first=Oliver |last=Holt |accessdate=21 July 2015}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.gbboxing.org.uk/news/natasha-jonas-hangs-up-her-gloves-686.php |title=Natasha Jonas hangs up her gloves |publisher=www.gbboxing.org.uk |date=7 April 2015 |accessdate=21 July 2015}}
7. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/get-inspired/23579610 |title=Natasha Jonas: From dinner scraps to Olympic boxing battles |date=6 August 2013 |first=Jessica |last=Creighton |publisher=BBC Sport |accessdate=21 July 2015}}

External links

  • {{boxrec|803069}}
  • Natasha Jonas (Official Website) natashajonas.co.uk
  • "Natasha Jonas’s weight of expectation", The Times, 16 August 2009
  • Natasha's exclusive training diary in the build up to London 2012 for Livefight
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12 : 1984 births|Living people|Alumni of Edge Hill University|Black English sportspeople|Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics|English women boxers|Lightweight boxers|Olympic boxers of Great Britain|Sportspeople from Liverpool|Boxers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games competitors for England|AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists

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