Jyri Kjäll
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Full name | Jyri Göran Kjäll | |||||||||||||
Nationality | Finland | |||||||||||||
Born | Seinäjoki[1] | 13 January 1969|||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||
Weight class | Light Welterweight | |||||||||||||
Club | Porin NMKY | |||||||||||||
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Jyri Göran Kjäll (born 13 January 1969) is a Finnish former boxer who won the bronze medal in the light welterweight division at the 1992 Summer Olympics. A year later he captured the silver medal at the 1993 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland.
Kjäll turned pro in 1994, moved to Florida,[2] and had limited success. Although he retired in 2002 with a career record with 23-1-0 with 18 KO's and fought frequently in the US, his career never built up momentum for a title shot. His lone defeat was a 1st-round TKO to future contender Juan Carlos Candelo.
References[]
- ^ Jyri Kjäll at Olympedia
- ^ Kanerva, Juha (13 January 2019). "Nyrkkeilyn olympiamitalisti Jyri Kjäll täyttää 50 vuotta – Barcelonan ikimuistoinen tokaisu jäi elämään". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 3 August 2019.
Vuonna 1994 Kjäll riisui paitansa ja muutti Floridaan.
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Categories:
- 1969 births
- Living people
- People from Seinäjoki
- Light-welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Finland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Finnish male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Finnish Olympic medalist stubs
- Finnish boxing biography stubs