page_title: Luke Campbell (boxer)
section_title: 2012 Summer Olympics
hierarchical_section_title: Luke Campbell (boxer) / Amateur boxing career / 2012 Summer Olympics
caption_attribution_description: English: Commemorative gold telephone box for boxer Luke Campbell winning gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
context_page_description: Luke Campbell, MBE is a British professional boxer. He held the WBC Silver and Commonwealth lightweight titles from 2016 to 2017. He has also challenged twice for world championships; the WBA and The Ring lightweight titles in 2017, and the WBA, WBO, The Ring and vacant WBC lightweight titles in 2019. As an amateur, Campbell won gold at the 2008 European Championships, silver at the 2011 World Championships and then won gold in the 2012 Olympics all in the bantamweight division.
  As of September 2019, Campbell is ranked as the world's fifth best active lightweight by The Ring, sixth by BoxRec and eighth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
context_section_description: At the 2012 London Olympics, Campbell won gold in the 56 kg Bantamweight division after beating Ireland's John Joe Nevin 14:11. Campbell had earlier beaten Italian, Vittorio Parrinello, by 11:9. In the quarter-finals he met Detelin Dalakliev of Bulgaria in his closest bout of the competition, controversially edging it by a score of 16:15. His next opponent, Satoshi Shimizu from Japan- who had earlier been reinstated in the tournament by AIBA after a successful appeal after a defeat by Magomed Abdulhamidov was beaten by 20:11. Campbell beat Nevin in the final bout, and dropped the Irishman at the start of the third round, thus becoming the first bantamweight boxer to win Olympic gold for Great Britain since Henry Thomas in 1908.
  A first class postage stamp, depicting Campbell, was issued by Royal Mail and a post box in Hessle Road, Hull was painted gold to commemorate his gold medal win. Local telephone network provider, KC, have also commemorated the win by painting one of their telephone boxes, near to St Paul's Boxing Club, gold.
  Campbell was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to boxing.
caption: Gold telephone box near St Paul's Boxing Club, Hull commemorating Campbell's gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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