Award winning coach Michael Driscoll “slobbered” all over the woman after pushing his way into her hotel room, a court heard.
His behaviour represented an arrogant and outdated sexual entitlement, a jury in Brighton were told.
Mr Driscoll denies three counts of sexual assault.
Oliver Dunkin for the Crown said: “This was behaviour on the part of this defendant which has no place in 2019 when it occurred.”
The court heard Mr Driscoll, 56, sexually assaulted the woman on two occasions.
Mr Dunkin said the first assault happened in her hotel room.
“As she opened the door, he pushed her in and pinned her against a mirror trying to kiss her.
“He was slobbering all over her and she was trying to keep her mouth shut and move her head from side to side, trying to fight him off as he pinned her to the wall.”
The woman told police she managed to break away when her phone rang.
“When she put the phone down, she turned and the defendant had stripped to his underpants and was sitting on the bed.
“As quickly as he had stopped before he now started again, grabbing her and throwing her onto the bed,” Mr Dunkin told the jury.
“He was trying to take her clothes off and ripping at her nightie, trying to pull it up.
“She tried to hit him, moving her head from side to side again, yelling at him to get off her.
“When he could not kiss her mouth he moved down to her breast area and was slobbering over her there.”
The court heard Mr Driscoll told police the woman had seduced him in her lingerie.
Mr Dunkin said: “He claimed that she had in effect enticed him to her room before meeting him at the door seductively in lingerie.
“He said that on her opening the door she had given him a seductive look and started kissing him.
“He said that they had moved into the room whilst kissing and that the complainant had then fallen on to the bed.”
The award winning coach worked as a talent scout for England Boxing.
He oversaw the development of more than 100 national champions.
As a former boxer, he fought for the British title and narrowly missed being selected for the Seoul Olympics as light-welterweight.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police Mr Driscoll later apologised for the hotel incident saying he though his reputation as a well respected national coach meant she would be sexually interested in him.
Mr Dunkin said: “He told her that he thought that she would want to do it because of his name.”
The woman said the second assault took place the same year.
Mr Dunkin said: “As she walked past the defendant, he groped her and grabbed her.
“This was a proper, grabbing grope.”
Mr Dunkin described the behaviour of the boxing coach as “more akin to the kind of sexist, misogynistic behaviour you used to see in the media of the 1970s.”
The trial at Lewes Crown Court in Brighton continues.
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