By the age of 20, Garside had received a gold medal on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games on the Gold Coast. On the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which had been held in 2021 as a result of pandemic, he received bronze, changing into the primary Australian boxer to win an Olympic medal since Grahame Cheney’s silver at Seoul in 1988. Nonetheless not sufficient, he reckoned. Nonetheless a failure. He needed that gold medal. (Garside lived in Canberra for a 12 months coaching on the Australian Institute of Sport within the lead-up to Tokyo. In his e book, he says making the choice to remain there over the 2020 summer season when everybody else had gone residence, throughout the choking smoke of the close by bushfires, was considered one of his lowest factors. However, do not get him improper – he “loves Canberra. It is a actually cool, outdoorsy place”.)
