GB BOXING has selected a 15-man team to compete in the forthcoming European Championships in Ankara, Turkey, (17 -25 June 2011).

The team includes 2008 European Champion Luke Campbell and three of the boxers that won medals at the 2010 European Championships in Moscow, Khalid Yafai and Tom Stalker who won silver and Andrew Selby who took Bronze.

The team contains two Welsh and two Scottish boxers, including the recently-crowned Commonwealth Games Bantamweight (56Kg) Gold medallist, Sean McGoldrick from Wales and Scotland’s Josh Taylor who won silver in the Lightweight (60Kg) category at the same event.   The youngest member of the team is 18-year-old Light Flyweight (49Kg), Charlie Edwards from London.

In 2011, members of the GB Boxing squad have won have won 26 medals in seven elite International tournaments against some of the world's top boxing nations including Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Poland, France, Hungary, Uzbekistan and Cuba.

The medal tally includes nine Gold, four Silver and 13 Bronze.  Bantamweight (56Kg), Luke Campbell has won three successive Golds at the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary, the Gee Bee in Helsinki and most recently at the Algirdas Socikas Tournament in Lithuania.  Anthony Ogogo, Fred Evans, Khalid Yafai, Scott Cardle, Tom Stalker and Martin Ward have also recorded tournament victories in 2011.

GB Boxing’s Performance Director, Rob McCracken said: “The GB Boxing squad has performed very well this year and has benefited from being exposed to a high standard of international competition.

“The quality of the opposition means the European Championships is one of the toughest assignments in the international boxing calendar so it will provide a good test of how the squad is progressing as we build-up to the World Championships later this year and the Olympic Games in 2012.”

Zack Davies from the GB Boxing Development squad has been chosen by the Welsh selectors and will also compete at the Championships as part of the Wales team.

Regular updates on the progress of the team at the European Championship will be posted at www.gbboxing.org.uk once the tournament begins on Friday 17 June 2011.

The European Amateur Boxing Championship was initially scheduled to take place in 2012, but was brought forward to 2011 by European Boxing Confederation (EUBC) and the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) to ensure it did not clash with the Olympic Games.