Boxer Joe Joyce, a special guest at the Active Wandsworth Sports Awards last week, has his eye firmly set on the qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

The 29-year-old has made an unbeaten start to the season in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) as part of the British Lionhearts, having beaten Ukraine’s Viktor Vykhryst and Algeria’s Mohammed Grimes.

After the WSB, Joyce, the Commonwealth Games super-heavyweight champion, has more competitions to look forward to including the World and European Championships, where he wants to clinch a place in the Great Britain Olympic team.

“It’s good as long as I get the results. It’ll be good preparation and a good learning curve for the Olympics,” said Joyce.

“Like with the Commonwealths, I’m just looking at the first goal first, after that I can make the second goal.

“I have a long term goal, being in the Olympics. I’m going to have to knuckle down, train hard, box hard.”

The British Lionhearts take on the defending champions Cuba Domodores in Havana tomorrow (Friday).