Middleweight Anthony Ogogo and Welterweight, Fred Evans, secured Gold as men and women from the GB Boxing squad put in a superb team performance to win seven medals at the Strandja Cup in Bulgaria.

It takes the total of medals won by the GB Boxing squad in the first two months of 2011 to 10 and follows an excellent performance at the previous week’s Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary, when GB Boxing returned with Gold for Bantamweight Luke Campbell, Silver for Light Welterweight, Bradley Saunders, and Bronze for Heavyweight, Danny Price.

Both tournaments featured top class competition and included boxers from many of the world’s leading nations including Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, France, Hungary, Bulgaria and Cuba.  A full list of medal winners is:

The Strandja Cup (15-20 February 2010)

Gold

·  Fred Evans, Wales, 69Kg, St Joseph’s, Cardiff

·  Anthony Ogogo, England, 75Kg, Triple A Boxing Club, Lowestoft

Silver

·  Martin Ward, England, 60Kg, Repton, Bethnal Green

Bronze

·  Tommy Stubbs, England, 52 Kg, Northside, Oldham

·  Gamal Yafai, England, 56Kg, Birmingham City, Birmingham

·  Natasha Jonas, England, 60Kg, Rotunda, Liverpool

·  Simon Vallily, England, 91Kg, South Bank ABC, Middlesbrough

Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary (9-13 February 2011)

Gold

· Luke Campbell, England, 56Kg, St Paul’s, Hull

Silver

· Bradley Saunders, England, 64Kg, South Durham ABC, Stockton on-Tees

Bronze

· Danny Price, England, 91Kg, Westway ABC, Scarborough

GB Boxing’s Performance Director said: “To come back with 10 medals, including three Golds, from two such high calibre competitions is a superb performance by the squad and augurs very well for the future.

“For many of the squad this was their first taste of top-level international boxing and for so many of them to perform so well and come back with a medal is a very positive sign and shows the strength in depth we now have within the squad.”