Jerome Thomas (boxer)

Jérôme Thomas
Statistics
Weight(s)	Flyweight Bantamweight
Height	5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Nationality	French
Born	Jérôme Cedric Thomas (1979-01-20) 20 January 1979 (age 39) Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	14
Wins	12
Wins by KO	1
Losses	1
Draws	1
Medal record Men’s Boxing Representing  France Olympic Games 2004 Athens Flyweight 2000 Sydney Flyweight World Amateur Championships 2001 Belfast Flyweight 2003 Bangkok Flyweight European Amateur Championships 2002 Perm Flyweight 2006 Plovdiv Flyweight EU Amateur Championships 2003 Strasbourg Flyweight 2004 Madrid Flyweight Mediterranean Games 2001 Tunis Flyweight

Jérôme Cedric Thomas (born 20 January 1979) is a French former boxer, he competed in the flyweight (– 51 kg) division as an amateur and as a bantamweight as a professional.

Thomas won the world championship at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was runner-up in 2003 losing to Somjit Jongjohor. Thomas qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in second place at the 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland. In 2007, he lost early against European Champion Georgy Balakshin.

He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics (2000-2008), winning a bronze (2000), and a silver medal (2004). At the 2008 Summer Olympics he lost in the first round.

He was born with a condition, Poland syndrome: his left hand is smaller than the right one, his left arm is shorter than the right one, and he has almost no left pectoral muscle.

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