Shawn Terry Cox
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Shawn Terry Cox is a boxer from Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

 best known for participating in the 2000 Olympics and for winning gold 2002 and silver at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
Boxing at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
The Boxing Tournament at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Cartagena, Colombia from July 20 to July 27.- Medal winners :-External links:*...

 at light heavyweight.

Amateur career

1.84/6'0' southpaw Cox competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

 in Sydney but ran right into one of the favorites in Frenchman John Dovi
John Dovi
John Dovi is a former French amateur boxer who medaled repeatedly in international competitions.-Career:He was 7 times French light-heavy champ from 1999 to 2005....

 and lost 10:14. At the Commonwealth Games 2002 and 2006 and bote the PanAm Games 2003 and 2007 he lost in the first round.

He won the 2002 Caribbean Games defeating Ramiro Reducindo
Ramiro Reducindo
Ramiro Goben Reducindo Radilla is a boxer from Mexico, who won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo at light heavyweight by defeating Yoan Pablo Hernandez in the final.-Amateur:At the...

 (15:14), benefitting from the absence of Cuban boxers. At the 2006 Central American Games he reached the final where he lost to Cuba's Yusiel Napoles
Yusiel Napoles
Yusiel Nápoles Marcillan is a Cuban amateur boxer best known to win the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games at light heavyweight...

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