Rosie Eccles

Eccles won a silver medal at the 2016 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships losing in the light-welterweight final to Aleksandra Ordina from Russia.^[4] At the 2018 Commonwealth Games she also took silver when she lost in the welterweight final to England's Sandy Ryan by split decision (3:2).^[5]

Eccles won bronze at the 2019 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships after going out in the welterweight semi-finals via split decision to Italian Angela Carini.^[6]

She also competed at the 2019 World Championships in Ulan-Ude, Russia,^[7] where she lost by unanimous decision to Yang Liu in the round of 16.^[8]

Eccles won a gold medal in the light-middleweight division at the 2022 Commonwealth Games stopping Australia's Kaye Scott in round two of the final.^[9][10]

She secured a quota place for the 2024 Summer Olympics by taking a bronze medal at the 2023 European Games in Poland.^[11] On 7 June 2024, Eccles was officially announced in the Great Britain squad for the Olympics.^[12] She was drawn to fight Poland’s Aneta Rygielska in the first round of the 66 kg division,^[13] losing by a controversial split decision.^[14][15] BBC Sport commentators could not hide their shock at the result because Eccles had been ahead throughout her bout with Rygielska. The Polish boxer even had a point deducted and a warning for failing to keep her head up.^[16][17] The two ringside judges who deemed it equal then signalled that Rygielska was the winner, despite her infringement. BBC's Steve Bunce was left stunned saying "I'm really annoyed. It's a bad decision."^[18]

• Boxing record for Rosie Eccles from BoxRec (registration required)
• Rosie Eccles at Team Wales (archive)
• Rosie Eccles at Team GB
• Rosie Eccles at Olympics.com
• Rosie Eccles at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
• "Rosie Eccles: From boxercise to the World Champs"
• Rosie Eccles on LinkedIn