Gabriel Dossen (born 29 November 1999) is an Irish

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who won a gold medal at the

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Boxing career

Dossen fights out of the southpaw stance. He currently fights under the Olympic Boxing Club in Galway having formerly fought with the Furbo Boxing Club in

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. Dossen won bronze in the

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as a

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and bronze at the 2017 EUBC European Youth Championships. On 30 May 2022, he won middleweight gold at the

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Personal life

Dossen was born in

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and moved to Ireland at a young age. He currently lives in the Knocknacarra area of Galway where he works at Tesco and is a business studies student at Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dossen, Gabriel Irish male boxers 1999 births Living people Boxers from County Galway Middleweight boxers Southpaw boxers 21st-century Irish sportsmen