Колорадо Спрингс, Скут. (Април 5, 2018 — USA Boxing has announced that Duke Раган (Синсинати, OH) и Virginia Fuchs (Kemah, TX) have been named 2017 Under Armour Elite Boxers of the Year. They are leading contenders to represent Team USA at the 2020 Олимпиадата в Япония.

Миналата година, the 20-year-old Ragan used his stiff jab and ring intelligence to make a major statement in the ring for the first time in International competition. The slick bantamweight (123 паунда.) captured gold at his initial International tournament, the Chemistry Cup in Halle, Германия, before he clinched a ticket to his first World Championships, by way of his bronze-medal winning performance at the 2017 Continental Championships in Honduras.

Ragan’s third International medal of 2017 came at the 2017 Elite Men’s World Championships, where he won a silver medal, marking the highest placing for an American bantamweight at that prestigious tournament since 1999.

Fuchs, 30, had a perfect 18-0 запис в 2017, включително и 15 unanimous decision victories and one by RSC (referee stopped contest). Highlighted by winning top honors in the flyweight division (112 паунда.) в 2017 USA Elite National Championships at Salt Lake City, Юта, Virginia also won at the Balkan Tournament, Continental Championships, Feliks Stamm Tournament, and Strandja Tournament. She won gold at all four International tournaments she entered.

A winner at the 2016 Олимпийските Trials, Fuchs graduated from Louisiana State University in 2011 with a degree in Kinesiology.

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