AMIR Khan aims to continue the summer of the teenage terrors.

After the startling success of Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Maria Sharapova, the 17-year-old Bolton boxer has his sights on doing something similar at next month's Olympics.

The brilliant lightweight prospect has already made a huge impact and that is why he has been chosen as the Manchester Evening News Sports Personality of the Month for June.

Khan will be the baby of the British team heading for Athens later this month, but he carries the flag in the toughest of all the Olympic sports.

And, perversely, he is STILL too young to fight for a British national senior title, where the age limit is 18.

But the modest lad, who fights for Bury ABC, has already proved his credentials - and it was his performances in winning the world under-19 title that clinched our special award.

After five fights in seven days in South Korea, he emerged with the gold medal, the first British boxer ever to do so.

Bolton College student Khan, son of a Pakistan-born motor mechanic, has made a habit of upsetting apple carts. The Amateur Boxing Association did not even want him to try to qualify for the Olympics, fearing he was too young. His response was to threaten to fight under the banner of Pakistan. The committee back-pedalled furiously.

The critics seemed justified when Khan went out in the quarter finals of the European Championships in February.

But the following month at the Strandja Trophy event in Bulgaria, when Khan won his division and took the best boxer trophy, aficionados started to draw comparisons between Khan and his hero, Muhammad Ali.

In May, Khan travelled to Athens for the Acropolis Cup, where he lost on points to three-times world amateur champion and reigning Olympic title-holder Mario Kindelan, of Cuba.

Khan believes he saw enough to beat Kindelan if they should ever meet again.

If he gets a run going in Athens, he will become a household name.

To win our award he beat off competition from Gary Neville and Ruud van Nistelrooy, as well as fellow boxer Robin Reid, himself an Olympic bronze medallist in 1992. Tweet