REPRESENTING: Barney-Smith performs well for England in Europe
TALENTED Royston Barney-Smith continues to perform well for the young England team. With a trophy cabinet already packed with silverware, he most recently secured a 54kgs bronze medal at the European Junior championships. “It was good really, it was very good,” he said of the tournament in Galati. “The atmosphere was great.”
“I had four [bouts] in five days,” he continued. He came up against Russia’s Mikhail Grigorian in the semi-final, conceding a unanimous decision to him. “He was a good boxer, very sharp,” Barney-Smith explained. “The fight was very much like a chess match. There wasn’t really a lot going on but we were both throwing shots that counted, if you know what I mean.”