Daniel Beahan
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Daniel Beahan is an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n amateur boxer best known to qualify for the Olympics 2008 at super heavyweight.

Career

In 2002 he won a Light-Heavyweight Bronze at the Junior World Championships when he was stopped in the semi by Ukrainian Roman Zavalnyuk.

Until 2005 Beahan who is from Gladstone, Queensland
Gladstone, Queensland
- Education :Gladstone has several primary schools, three high schools, and one university campus, Central Queensland University. It is also home to CQIT Gladstone Campus.- Recreation :...

 and works as a plumber then competed at 201 lbs limit where he lost to Bradley Michael Pitt
Bradley Michael Pitt
Bradley Michael "Hollywood" Pitt is an Australian amateur boxer best known for winning the Heavyweight Gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and for qualifying for the 2008 Olympics....

 at the Nationals.

At superheavy he lost the qualifier for a berth in the Commonwealth 2006 team to the bigger Steven Rudic
Steven Rudic
Steve Rudic is an Australian boxer best known for winning the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games 2006 in the men's super heavyweight division....

 but managed to establish himself as the Australian representing that weightclass later by beating Rudic repeatedly.

Internationally his success has been moderate though. He lost to Isekeu Maama at the Oceania Championships, he beat Maama but lost to David Price (boxer)
David Price (boxer)
David Price is a professional British heavyweight boxer from Liverpool.-Amateur career:The 6 ' 8 Price boxed out of Salisbury ABC and in 2003 became the youngest ever A.B.A champion in the Super-Heavyweight division, he was 19 years and 272 days old...

 in the final of the Commonwealth Championships, at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships‎ he got KOd by massive Chinese southpaw Zhang Zhilei
Zhang Zhilei
Zhang Zhilei is a Chinese amateur boxer best known for winning a bronze medal at the world amateur championships 2007 at super heavyweight and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics .-Career:...

.

In 2008 the 24-year-old did qualify for the Olympics by winning the Oceania championships against Uaine Fa, Tonga.
He lost his Olympic debut to Ruslan Myrsatayev
Ruslan Myrsatayev
Ruslan Myrsatayev is a Kazakh boxer best known for qualifying in the Super Heavyweight division at the 2008 Summer Olympics....

 by RSC.

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