Jackson Woods

Jackson Woods (* 1. February 1993 in Latrobe (Tasmania) ) is an Australian boxer in the flyweight and participants in the 2012 Olympic Games in London .

Woods started boxing in 2006, in which he won the Tasmanian youth title. From this year he took part annually in the Australian youth or junior championships, which he was able to win for the first time in 2010. In the same year he was nominated for the Australian team for the Junior World Championships in Baku , where he reached the quarter-finals. In 2011 he started at the Youth Commonwealth Games on the Isle of Man and won the silver medal. The following year he took part for the first time in the Australian men's championship, which he was able to win straight away. As a result, he took part in the oceanic Olympic qualification tournament, which he was able to win with a final victory against the Papua New Guinea Kauko Raka (RSC 3).

In preparation for his first Olympic participation, Woods took part in three international tournaments in Eastern Europe in May 2012. In Belgrade he lost by abandoning the 3rd round against Magomed Abdurakhmanov, Russia , and in Kaunas by losing points to Andrew Selby , Wales (14: 7). At the tournament in Minsk he was a little more successful: Woods won on points against Koryun Soghomonyan, Armenia (12: 8) and Dmitriy Strigelskiy, Belarus (21:16), but lost in the semifinals on points against Nurgazy Zhusupov, Kazakhstan .

At the Olympic Games he lost in the first fight against Samir Brahimi from Algeria. At the 2013 World Cup he also lost in the first fight against Stefan Ivanov from Bulgaria. He suffered another defeat in the first fight in 2014 at the Commonwealth Games against Sean McGoldrick from Wales.