Andrew Kooner

Andrew Kooner

Personal information

Full name

Andrew Singh Kooner

Nationality

Canadian

Born

11 May 1979 (age 44)
Kettering, Northamptonshire

Height

1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Weight

54 kg (119 lb)

Sport

Boxing

Weight class

Flyweight and Bantamweight

Club

Windsor Amateur Boxing Club

Medal record

Commonwealth Games

	2002 Manchester	Bantamweight
Pan American Games
	2003 Santo Domingo	Bantamweight

Andrew Singh Kooner (born 11 May 1979 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England) is a Canadian boxer and trainer, currently living in Toronto.

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Amateur career

Andrew Kooner moved to Tecumseh, Ontario at a young age and began boxing at age 13 out of a Windsor boxing club. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he lost in the 2nd round in the flyweight division. He won a bronze medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games; and the silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he finished tied for fifth in the bantamweight (54 kg) division^[1] after having qualified at the 1st AIBA American 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Tijuana, Mexico. He also defeated Juan Manuel López in the amateurs.^[2]

Olympic results

2000 Olympics

Defeated Nacer Keddam (Algeria) 18-11
Lost to Wijan Ponlid (Thailand) 7-11

2004 Olympics

Defeated Alexander Espinoza (Venezuela) 37-20
Lost to Bahirdirdjon Sultanov (Uzbekistan) 32-44

Pro career

Kooner turned pro in 2006 and has a 10-2 Record and is the current bantamweight champion of Canada.

Post Boxing

Andrew Kooner currently resides in Toronto and runs his own fitness program, Kooner's Boxing, providing specialized training ranging from fitness to well-being to training up-and-coming boxers. He is also a coach for Rock Steady Boxing, a program that gives people with Parkinson’s disease hope by improving their quality of life through a non-contact boxing-based fitness curriculum.