Daniel Beahan
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Daniel Beahan (b. April 05, 1984 in Bundaberg, Queensland) is an Australian amateur boxer best known to qualify for the Olympics 2008 at super heavyweight.
[edit] 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 and works as a plumber then competed at 201 lbs limit where he lost to Bradley Michael Pitt at the Nationals.
At superheavy he lost the qualifier for a berth in the Commonwealth 2006 team to the bigger Steven Rudic 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) in the final of the Commonwealth Championships, at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships‎ he got KOd by massive Chinese southpaw Zhang Zhilei.
In 2008 the 24-year-old did qualify for the Olympics by winning the Oceania championships against Uaine Fa, Tonga.
