What is presented every four years to the most "outstanding boxer" at the Olympic Games and won by a retired Scottish amateur boxer in 1995?
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Dick McTaggart Richard "Dick" McTaggart, MBE (born 15 October 1935) is a retired Scottish amateur boxer. He competed in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in the lightweight division and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. In 1956 he received the Val Barker Trophy for best boxing style at the Olympics. At the 1964 Olympics McTaggart moved to the light-welterweight category, but lost in the third bout to the eventual winner Jerzy Kulej. McTaggart won the British ABA title in 1956, 1958, 1960, 1963 and 1965, and retired with a record of 610 wins out of 634 bouts.
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Val Barker Trophy The Val Barker Trophy is presented every four years to the most "outstanding boxer" at the Olympic Games. In theory, the award goes to the top "pound for pound" boxer in the Olympics. The winner is selected by a committee of International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA) officials. The trophy is named after British boxer Val Barker who won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABA) heavyweight title in 1891, before becoming the secretary of the AIBA between 1926 and 1929.
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Tom Corr Thomas Corr (born 9 July 1962) is a former amateur boxer. He was born in Ireland. Corr won a bronze medal for Ireland at the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Munich, West Germany in the light middleweight division. He also won a bronze medal representing Northern Ireland at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.
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Polish Youth Olympic Days Polish Youth Olympic Days ("Ogólnopolska Olimpiada Młodzieży"), are Polish national games for the children and young adults that have been organised yearly since 1995. The games are held in four categories of sport:
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2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament The 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament was held in Karachi, Pakistan from May 6 to May 12, 2004. Also known as the "Green Hill Tournament" it was the penultimate opportunity for Asian amateur boxers to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics after the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships. The top two of each division earned Olympic qualification with the exception of the heavyweight and super heavyweight divisions, in which there were no qualification opportunities.
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World Masters Games The World Masters Games is an international multi-sport event held every four years which, in terms of competitor numbers, has developed into the largest of its kind.
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Mary Kom Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte (born 24 November 1982), better known as Mary Kom, is an Olympic Indian boxer hailing from the Kom tribe in Manipur. She is a five-time World Amateur Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships. Nicknamed "Magnificent Mary", she is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning the bronze medal. She has also been ranked as No. 4 AIBA World Women's Ranking Flyweight category. She became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games in 2014 in Incheon, South Korea.
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Michael Strange (boxer) Michael "Mike" V. Strange (born August 6, 1970 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a retired boxer from Canada, competing in the light welterweight (< 64 kg) division. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain.
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Kevin McBride Kevin Martin McBride (born 10 May 1973) is a retired Irish professional boxer who is best known for defeating Mike Tyson in 2005, in what would be the latter's final fight. As an amateur, McBride competed for Ireland at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships The men's 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Pula, Croatia, from February 19 to February 29. The 35th edition of thi bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. A total number of 292 fighters from 41 countries competed at these championships. Russia's Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov afterwards received the "Best Fighter Award". The tournament served as a qualification event for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. All medal winners earned a berth for the Athens Games.
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Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Welterweight The Welterweight class in the boxing competition was the fifth-highest weight class. Welterweights were limited to those boxers weighing a maximum of 67 kilograms (147.8 lbs). 33 boxers qualified for this category. Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. Both semifinal losers were awarded bronze medals, so no boxers competed again after their first loss. Bouts consisted of six rounds each. Five judges scored each bout.
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Lennox Lewis Lennox Claudius Lewis, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 2 September 1965) is a former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and remains the last heavyweight to hold the undisputed title. Lewis holds dual British and Canadian citizenship; as an amateur he represented Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division after defeating future world champion Riddick Bowe in the final.
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The Big Fight Live The Big Fight Live is a British boxing television programme, broadcast by ITV Sport regularly from 1984-1995 and again from 2005-2010. In 2017, over 30 years after it was first launched, ITV announced that 'The Big Fight Live' would return after it was announced Chris Eubank JR would fight for the world title on ITV Box Office.
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Bernard Wilson (boxer) Bernard Wilson is retired male amateur boxer from Grenada, who fought at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the men's welterweight division. He was the first Olympic Flag bearer for the island at the games. He also represented Grenada at the 1987 Pan American Games.
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1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Houston, United States from August 15 to August 29. The tenth edition of this competition, a year before the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.
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Zsolt Erdei Zsolt Erdei (born 31 May 1974) is a Hungarian former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2014. He held the WBO and lineal light-heavyweight titles from 2004 to 2009 (making eleven consecutive defences), and the WBC cruiserweight title from 2009 to 2010. Erdei is the first boxer from Hungary to have won a world title in two weight divisions. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal in the middleweight division at the 2000 Olympics.
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Kenny Anderson (boxer) Kenneth John W. "Kenny" Anderson (born 5 January 1983 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional boxer and former Commonwealth Games light-heavyweight gold medalist. He's also the current British super middleweight champion after beating Robin Reid for the vacant belt.
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Patrick Graham (boxer) Patrick Graham (born October 3, 1969 in Calgary, Alberta) is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxer. He is not known for his skill in boxing, but for his toughness, strength, good basic boxing skills and durability. His boxing idol was George Chuvalo. Although he did not have Chuvalo's durability, Graham showed resilience, and the ability to compete in the sport.
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2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from June 3 to June 10. The competition was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing International Boxing Association (AIBA).
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Andrey Kurnyavka Andrey Petrovich Kurnyavka (Russian: Андрей Петрович Курнявка , born 4 May 1968) is a retired Soviet and Kyrgyzstani amateur boxer. He won the world middleweight title in 1989, and finished second in 1991, but was not included to the 1992 Soviet Olympic team and retired from boxing. He went out of retirement after a last-minute offer to compete for Kyrgyzstan at the 1996 Summer Olympics, but lost in the first bout to the eventual winner Félix Savón.
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Ren Cancan Ren Cancan (; born April 26, 1986 in Jining, Shandong) is a female Chinese boxer who has won three world championships. She took up boxing in 2002 and won the silver medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the Women's Boxing – Flyweight Division as southpaw, she is also a bronze medalist of women's 51 kg title at 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She lost in both of her Olympic Games to the double-champion Nicola Adams.
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Vassiliy Jirov Vassiliy Valeryevich Jirov (born 4 April 1974), sometimes known as Vasily Zhirov, is a Kazakhstani former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2009, and held the IBF cruiserweight title from 1999 to 2003. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics, as well as consecutive bronzes at the 1993 and 1995 World Championships, all in the light-heavyweight division.