{"id":44870,"date":"2025-08-04T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44870\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:40:13","slug":"this-louisville-boxer-just-won-a-gold-medal-at-an-international-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44870\/","title":{"rendered":"This Louisville boxer just won a gold medal at an international tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville&#8217;s Lavant Brownlee is a member of USA Boxing&#8217;s Youth High Performance Team, which dominated in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 A Louisville boxer won a gold medal recently at an international boxing competition in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, local boxing star Lavant Brownlee took home his first international gold medal at the Brandenburg Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Brownlee is a member of USA Boxing&#8217;s Youth High Performance Team, which has been in Germany since last month for the highly competitive international tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The USA Team dominated, taking home seven gold medals in total.<\/p>\n<p>Brownlee closed out the week with two unanimous decisions and secured gold after his opponent couldn&#8217;t compete in the final round.<\/p>\n<p>Brownlee is currently ranked #1 in the country for his weight group. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His coach, Five Star Boxing\u2019s Aaron Sheckles, says this is a major step forward in Brownlee&#8217;s goal to qualify for and compete in the 2028 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>In July, WHAS11 News&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whas11.com\/article\/sports\/local-sports\/louisville-boxer-lavant-brownlee-competing-major-international-competition-brandenburg-germany\/417-14d6aecf-40c7-4478-aa13-5f23ed6b86d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Grace McKenna interviewed Brownlee<\/a>, when he said the ultimate goal of the Brandenburg cup was to go to Germany and win gold.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whas11.com\/article\/sports\/local-sports\/louisville-boxer-lavant-brownlee-competing-major-international-competition-brandenburg-germany\/417-14d6aecf-40c7-4478-aa13-5f23ed6b86d9\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top-ranked Louisville boxer competing in major international competition<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louisville&#8217;s Lavant Brownlee is a member of USA Boxing&#8217;s Youth High Performance Team, which dominated in Germany. LOUISVILLE,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-44870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}