Peter Wakefield (boxer)

{{short description|Australian boxer}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2011}}

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| nationality = {{AUS}}

| weight class = Light Flyweight

| club = Northside

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1977|9|6}}

| birth_place = Modbury, South Australia

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| height = {{height|m=1.63}}

| weight = {{convert|47|kg|lb}}

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Peter Wakefield (born 6 September 1977 in Modbury, South Australia) is a retired male light flyweight boxer from Australia. He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he was stopped in the second round of the men's light flyweight division (– 48 kg) by Namibia's Joseph Jermia.

He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/history/achievements/olympics AIS at the Olympics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606223207/http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/history/achievements/olympics |date= 6 June 2011 }} In 2017, Wakefield was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment for drug trafficking.{{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Olympians Who Were Sent to Prison |url=https://www.olympedia.org/lists/81/manual |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=www.olympedia.org}}