Chris Johnson (boxer)
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Chris Omar Johnson (born August 8, 1971) is a Jamaican-born boxer, who won a middleweight bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Canada.[1] He won the middleweight gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. He was inducted into Boxing Canada’s Hall of Fame, Class of 2019.[2]
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Full name | Chris Omar Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | August 8, 1971 (1971-08-08) (age 52) Manchester, Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Johnson was raised in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada with his three brothers, Greg, Wayne, and Kevin, and 2 sisters, Angelina, and Necoal.
Johnson trained IBF Junior Featherweight World Champion, Steve "The Canadian Kid" Molitor, in addition to notable boxers such as Andrew Singh Kooner, and Natalie "Too Bad" Brown.[3] In 2014, the Toronto Star profiled Michael Brandon, one of his boxers.[4]