Rosie Eccles

Rosie Eccles has decided to step away from the GB Boxing World Class Programme and will not chase qualification for the 2028 Summer Olympics.

The controversial defeat for Wales boxing star Rosie Eccles is still part of a wider debate about the future of the sport at the Olympic Games. Former world champion Carl Frampton has urged authorities to get the sport’s house in order to ensure it makes to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Rosie Eccles admitted she was “really, really shocked” after her Olympic dream was ended at the first hurdle following a hugely controversial points decision defeat. The Team Wales Commonwealth champion of 2022 appeared to have done enough to comfortably overcome the challenge of Poland’s Aneta Rygielska in the women’s 66kg boxing. But the Great Britain fighter suffered a split-decision loss that left most spectators in the arena in Paris stunned at the outcome.

Rosie Eccles will join Lauren Price, Muhammad Ali, Floyd Mayweather and Lennox Lewis as boxers who have appeared at the Olympics, with a new generation of fighters eager to follow in their footsteps in Paris. Eccles, 28, has finally made it to the Games after overcoming illness and injuries that scuppered her bid to be alongside fellow Welsh fighter Price in Tokyo three years ago.

Rosie Eccles knows more than most about resilience and hopes both she and kindred spirit Andy Murray can crown their journeys back from the brink with Olympic medals at Roland Garros. The Welsh boxer, 27, will represent Team GB in the welterweight division (-66kg) at Paris 2024 having battled back from a Covid-inflicted attack on her nervous system which left her unable to dress herself. She has since caught Covid on three further occasions but insists she is ready to take on the world in the ring having booked her place with bronze at last year’s European Games.

Rosie Eccles believes the heartbreak of missing out on a place at the Tokyo Olympics will stand her in good stead when she finally realises a long-held boxing ambition in Paris next year. The 27-year-old from Cardiff was denied a second shot at reaching the delayed 2020 Games when Covid forced the cancellation of the second qualifier in London, and three personal bouts with the illness left her fearing the “curse” could strike again.

Rosie Eccles is poised to make amends for her Olympic heartache before Tokyo 2021. The Welsh boxer – who missed out three years ago because of illness – has secured a remarkable opportunity to compete for an Olympic gold medal at the upcoming Paris Olympics.

Commonwealth champion Rosie Eccles is among three Welsh boxers – and a dozen Welsh athletes in total – who have been named in the Great Britain squad for the European Games this summer. Eccles – who won gold at last year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham – is joined by Taylor Bevan and Harris Akbar in the GB squad for Krakow in Poland.

By Harry Corish Wales’ greatest male track and field para athlete, Aled Sion Davies, has labelled the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games a fantastic success for integrating para and able bodied sport together as the Games draws to a close tonight with the closing ceremony. Davies, who won yet another gold in the t41-41/T61-64 discus event, […]

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from gold medallist Rosie ECCLES (WAL) after she beat Kaye Frances SCOTT (AUS) in the women’s light middleweight final at The NEC on Sunday. Rosie ECCLES (WAL) – gold On winning gold: “I’ve had a few bad decisions go against me in the past, so I didn’t want to leave this one […]

Rosie Eccles stopped her opponent to win her second gold in succession at the Socikas Tournament in Kaunus. The 24-year-old welterweight followed up her victory at the Belgrade Winner event in Serbia with another triumph at the tournament in Lithuania.

Rosie Eccles has claimed a third medal in as many tournaments this year after reaching the final of the Socikas Tournament. The 24-year-old beat Russia’s Saadat Dalgatova in her opening fight in Lithuania.