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Ioan Croft

Welsh boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ112169408 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ioan Croft (born 30 November 2001) is a Welsh amateur boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2022 European Championships. His twin brother, Garan, is also an amateur boxer.

Both twins, who come from Crymych, took up boxing at Cardigan ABC and are Welsh-speaking. They were featured in an S4C television documentary prior to the Commonwealth Games 2022, at which they both represented Wales. At the Games Ioan won a gold medal and Garan bronze.

Ioan fights at welterweight division, his brother Garan at light-middleweight. Their mother insists that they do not fight against one another in a competitive bout.

Editorial summary

“Ioan Croft” enters the record as welsh boxer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ioan, Croft and Welsh can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ioan, Croft and Welsh.
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“Ioan Croft” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ioan, Croft and Welsh provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112169408. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ioan Croft” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.