Peter McGrail

Peter McGrail medal table
Boxing
England
World championships
bronze	2019	Bantamweight
bronze	2017	Bantamweight
European championships
gold	2017	Bantamweight
European Games
bronze	2019	Bantamweight
Commonwealth Games
gold	2018	Bantamweight
EU championships
silver	2018	Bantamweight

Peter McGrail (* 31 May 1996 in Liverpool ) is a British boxer in the bantamweight .

Career

Peter McGrail is around 1.63 m tall and boxing in the right display .

Schoolchildren, juniors and youth

Peter McGrail is British Student Master 2009, English and British Junior Champion 2012, English Junior Champion 2013 and 2014, and British Junior Champion 2014.

In 2012 he took part in the Junior European Championships in Sofia , where he was eliminated in the second fight. In 2014 he started at the Youth World Championships, also held in Sofia, and won a bronze medal in the bantamweight division. After victories against Satawat Pankaeo (TKO), Lee Chuan (3: 0), Nicuşor Ciobanu (3: 0) and Wolodymyr Fedorak (2: 1), he was only eliminated in the semifinals against Sultan Zaurbek (1: 2).

With this success, McGrail qualified for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing . With wins against Michal Takács (2: 1) and Salem Tama (3: 0), as well as a defeat against Javier Ibáñez (1: 2), he again won a bronze medal in the bantamweight division. He finished fifth at the 2014 European Youth Championships in Zagreb after losing to Dorin Bucșa (0: 3) in the quarter-finals. Before that, he had defeated Fredrik Jensen (3-0) and Ömer Koç (3-0).

elite

In 2015 he won the British Bantamweight Championships, the Gee Bee Tournament in Helsinki and the Feliks Stamm Tournament in Warsaw . In the two international tournaments he won against Matti Koota (3: 0), Kurt Walker (2: 1), Nazir Balayew (3: 0), Adrian Kowal (3: 0) and Stephen Boyle (3: 0).

In 2016 he became the English bantamweight champion and won the Feliks Stamm Tournament again. Qais Ashfaq was still used in its weight class at major international events in 2015 and 2016 .

In 2017, McGrail started at the U22 European Championships in Brăila and defeated Dzmitryj Assanau (3: 2), Jordan Rodriguez (5: 0), Raffaele Di Serio (5: 0) and İhsan Alagaş (5: 0), with which he entered the final of the bantamweight division. In the fight for the gold medal, he was narrowly defeated by Robert Jitaru (2: 3).

In June 2017 he was called up by the English Association at the European Championships in Kharkiv . McGrail won the preliminary round against Nándor Csóka (5: 0), the round of 16 against Dsmitryj Assanau (3: 2), the quarter-finals against Ahmed Chaouki El Ahmed (5: 0), the semifinals against José Quiles (5: 0) and the final against Mykola Butsenko (3-2). He was thus qualified for the 2017 World Championships in Hamburg , where he made it to the semi-finals against Ángel Jarquín (5: 0) and Leonel de los Santos (4: 1), where he lost to Qairat Jeralijew (0: 5) and won a bronze medal .

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia , he won the gold medal with wins against Benson Gicharu , Samuel Addo, Mohamed Hussamuddin and Kurt Walker . At the 2018 EU Championships in Spain, however, he was narrowly defeated 3-2 by Kurt Walker in the final after defeating Jordan Rodriguez and José Quiles . In September 2018 his balance sheet was 117 fights with 101 wins.

At the European Games in Minsk in 2019 he won a bronze medal after being knocked out 2: 3 against Kurt Walker in the semifinals. He also took part in the 2019 World Championships in Yekaterinburg and reached the semi-finals with victories against Yechan Lee, Tayfur Əliyev and Kavinder Bisht, in which he was eliminated against Lázaro Álvarez and won his second World Cup bronze medal.

World Series of Boxing (WSB)

McGrail has been boxing for the British Lionhearts team in the WSB since 2016 and reached the final of Season VI with the team.

Web links

• Peter McGrail, Team GB
• Peter McGrail, EUBC
• Peter McGrail, World Series of Boxing