It’s unfair to single out any of the Scottish Youth Team taking part in the Great Britain Youth Championships in Swansea this weekend but I’ve known Brodie since he walked into a boxing gym several years ago.
It’s been a magnificent season for the 17 year old plasterer who fights out of Craigmillar ABC under the guidance of trainers Kenny McCartney and Colin McCourt, “Kenny has really brought me on as a boxer; he keeps pushing me to the limit”, said Brodie, he regularly spars with club mate Jason Easton who picked up a Silver Medal in the Scottish seniors losing narrowly to Scottish and British Champion Lewis Benson in the 64kg weight category. Brodie has done the treble this season by winning the Eastern Districts youth Title, the Scottish Youth Title and now he’s picked up the Great Britain Youth Title yesterday in Wales.
Brodie fought a Welsh opponent in the semi finals and after two counts the referee stopped the contest in the 2nd round. Onwards to the final, Brodie came up against a tough Englishman and at the final bell the scores were 20-20, Brodie won on a count back of 63-47, taking into account he was deducted 2 points twice by the referee in the last round he still come out on top, “It feels like a dream”, that’s the only way Brodie could describe his achievement.
Brodie fights at 69kg in the Welterweight division and for boxers born in the year 1995 Brodie was the only Edinburgh fighter to have won the Scottish Title, now he’s won the British Title.
On the 19th of June Brodie is off to Brandenburg with the Scottish Team for the Germany Cup and I leave the last word to him, “It’s been a long fantastic season but I’m prepared to do anything to progress”.
By Raymond Fraser Buchanan
Below is a list of the final day results
Bout 1 – David Burrell (Sco) beat Andrew Cainv(Eng) 17 – 13
Bout 2 – Mohammed Ali (Eng) beat Stephen Boyle (Sco) 23 – 11
Bout 3 – Ukasha Farooq (Sco) beat Billy Edwards 14 4
Bout 4 – Sahir Iqbal (Eng) beat Andrew Tham (Sco) RSC
Bout 5 – Danny Wright (Eng) beat Igor Slwinski (Sco) 27 – 10
Bout 7 – Paul Lowther (Sco) beat Ben Bendal (Eng) 12 – 9
Bout 9 – Connal McDonald (Sco) beat Billy Lee (Eng) 10-9
Bout 10 – Harvey Horn (Eng) beat Jack Turner (Sco) 12 – 8
Bout 12 – Pat McCormack (Eng) beat Connor Hyslop (Sco) 21 – 3
Bout 13 – Ted Cheeseman (Eng) beat Sam Ball (Sco) 26 - 20
Bout 14 – Brodie Robertson (Sco) beat Yachia Chelli (Eng) 63 -47 COUNTBACK
Bout 15 – Lewis Emonson (Eng) beat Robert Harkin (Sco) 18 – 4
Daniel Fairweather and Jordan McShane won Bronze Medals.
As you can see from the above, Scotland won 5 Gold Medals, 7 Silver and 2 Bronze. These young boys will be prospects to look out for as seniors next season, Scottish boxing is looking healthy.
RSS Feed