Thomas Lee Stalker was born on 30 June 1984 and is an English professional boxer who challenged for the Commonwealth lightweight title in 2017.
16 Facts About Tom Stalker
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Tom Stalker won multiple international medals while competing for England as an amateur, including gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2011 World Championships.
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At the age of 26 Tom Stalker was voted the amateur boxing of the year by the Boxing Writer's club of Great Britain but claimed that when he started he was anything but a natural saying "My first year I was hopeless but my trainer, Kenny Willis, spent loads of time with me and I soon got better".
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Domestically Tom Stalker won the 2009 British Amateur Boxing Association championships held in Liverpool beating Scotland's Ryan Smith 10:4 in the final.
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The win came after disappointment the same year as Tom Stalker had previously lost in the final of the ABA Championships to rival Martin Stead by just one point.
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On 13 November 2010 Tom Stalker competed in the inaugural GB Championships held at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games 'warm-up' tournament, 2008 European Union Championships in Poland was the first international tournament which Tom Stalker meddled at, he won the gold medal at the Lightweight division, by beating Hungarian opponent Miklos Varga in the final after losing out at the 2008 European Championships in his home city of Liverpool after he lost 6:4 to Belarusian Vazgen Safaryants in the quarter-final stage.
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Tom Stalker competed at the 2009 European Union Championships in Denmark a year after winning gold at the same tournament, he reached the final of the competition, only to lose 10:4 to German, Eugen Burhard.
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Tom Stalker met Scotland's Josh Taylor in the final, with the English captain running out as a 10:3 winner.
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Tom Stalker won bronze at the 2011 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, losing to the Ukrainian Denys Berinchyk in the semi-final.
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The qualification to the Olympics came four years after Tom Stalker lost out in the selection process for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Tom Stalker captained GB Boxing's most successful ever Olympic team at the 2012 London Olympics.
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Tom Stalker was due to box the winner of Serdar Hudayberdiyev and Manoj Kumar.
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Tom Stalker met the latter on Saturday 4 August 2012, an opponent who Stalker had already beaten at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships.
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On 9 January 2012, Tom Stalker signed his first professional contract under Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Sport promotional banner.
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Tom Stalker appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Knockout Scousers in July 2012 alongside Natasha Jonas and James Dickens, which followed him in his bid for Olympic qualification.