{"id":167746,"date":"2025-09-25T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167746\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:54:11","slug":"open-day-to-celebrate-new-morecambe-gym-in-memory-of-teenage-boxing-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167746\/","title":{"rendered":"Open day to celebrate new Morecambe gym in memory of teenage boxing champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Leo and Lee Mountain<\/p>\n

\n A grand opening event for the community will be held at a new gym in Morecambe created in memory of a much-loved teenager.\n <\/p>\n

Leo’s Gym will host a family fun day this Saturday, September 27.<\/p>\n

The gym, on Whitefield Place, off Westgate in Morecambe, is dedicated to the life of Leo Mountain, a champion boxer from the town.<\/p>\n

Leo died in a road traffic incident on the Bay Gateway in the early hours of Sunday, April 20.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old North West champion trained and boxed at the Coastal club in the town.<\/p>\n

His dad Lee decided to open Leo’s Gym to keep his son’s memory alive.<\/p>\n

“When Leo passed, I said we needed two things to happen,” Lee told us earlier this year.<\/p>\n

“I need his name to continue and I need something good to come from the tragedy.”<\/p>\n

He hopes the gym will help other people who may have encountered tough times.<\/p>\n

Below, Leo’s Gym in Morecambe.<\/p>\n

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The gym hosts classes for boxing, circuit training, kickboxing and ladies’ boxfit, and is open to all ages.<\/p>\n

The grand opening on Saturday will be an afternoon of fun, food, games and activities for all the family, and a celebration of Leo’s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There will be facepainting, a raffle, workshops and more. If you would like to donate a raffle prize, please contact the gym.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0INTERVIEW: Dad to open new Morecambe gym to honour teenage son after tragic road death – Beyond Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leo and Lee Mountain A grand opening event for the community will be held at a new gym…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[48581,48582,64,63,41265,48580,802,48584,28447,32185,322,2289,48583,48585,136,48587,1195,48588,85,48586],"class_list":{"0":"post-167746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-103-5fm","9":"tag-107-5fm","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-beyond","13":"tag-beyond-radio","14":"tag-boxing","15":"tag-carnforth","16":"tag-lancashire","17":"tag-lancaster","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-local-news","20":"tag-morecambe","21":"tag-morecambe-bay","22":"tag-music","23":"tag-north-lancashire","24":"tag-radio","25":"tag-south-cumbria","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-station"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}