Lachute boxing club punches out a name for itself
Published: 12/09/2009 by Tara Kirkpatrick
LACHUTE–On December 5, the Lachute Olympic Boxing Club celebrated its first anniversary with a 15-match boxing tournament that featured the fast hands and quick steps of 30 boxers. Held at the Laurentian Regional High School in Lachute, the fight drew a crowd of nearly 300 people, who came out to cheer on the Argenteuil boxers and the visiting contenders who arrived from the Saint-Jerome Boxing Club.
“When Jean-Pierre Richer told me he was thinking of opening a boxing club, I embraced the idea and invited him to run the club out of my new gym. This boxing club is essential for the youth in this region. It gives them a place to deal with their issues. Many of the players here today were fighting each other in bars before this. Now they have a place to deal with those issues,” said Steve O’Brien, of Centre de Motivation O’Brien et Martineau Gym.
The Lachute Boxing Club now trains over 90 members who practice cardio-boxing, freestyle-boxing and Olympic-boxing. The athletes’ ages currently range between 11 years of age and 67, with fighters matched to their opponents by weight-class.
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Steve O’Brien of Centre de Motivation O’Brien et Martineau, awarded a boxing trophy to Simon Malette, the winner of the 150-pound, class match.
