Michaela Walsh

Michaela Walsh

Boxing

BIOGRAPHY

Michaela won bronze at World Youths in 2011 and Commonwealth silver in 2014 (flyweight) which she repeated at featherweight in 2018 when she also won European Championship bronze. She took silver at the 2019 European Games and in 2021 qualified for her first Olympics by finishing runner-up in the final Qualifier. Walsh lost to Italy’s Irma Testa in the last 16 in Tokyo.  In 2022 she added Commonwealth gold and another European bronze and her bronze at the 2023 European Games – her eighth major medal – also clinched her place in Paris. Michaela and Aidan made history in 2021 as the first sister/brother to ever compete in Olympic boxing and are repeating that achievement in Paris.

Gender

Female

Discipline

57kg (Featherweight)

Date Of Birth

June 5, 1993

Hometown

Belfast

Games

Paris 2024, Tokyo 2020

OTHER BOXING ATHLETES

Jennifer Lehane

Gráinne Walsh

Daina Moorehouse

Jack Marley

Jude Gallagher

Dean Clancy

Aidan Walsh

Emmet Brennan

Kellie Harrington

Aoife O’Rourke

Kurt Walker

Brendan Irvine

BOXING NEWS

Nominations For RTE Sportsperson of the Year

Next Sunday evening, December 15th at 9:30 pm, the RTÉ Sport Awards 2024 will air live on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player. Hosted by Joanne Cantwell, Darragh Maloney, and Jacqui Hurley from Studio 4 in RTÉ, the event will celebrate Irish sporting excellence in front of an audience filled with the nation’s top athletes. [...]

2024 OLYMPIC GAMES – DAY6 EVENING REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND

Twenty-one-year-old Sallynoggin heavyweight (92kg) Jack Marley, who made such an impressive Olympic debut last Sunday was beaten tonight by Davlat Boltaev of Tajikistan in the 92kg quarter-finals; 4-1. Earlier talented Bray flyweight Daina Moorehouse was bitterly disappointed to be on the wrong side of a 4-1 decision in favour of hometown fighter Wassila Lkhadiri of [...]

2024 OLYMPIC GAMES – DAY 3 AFTERNOON REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND

In Canoe Slalom double Olympian Liam Jegou put in an incredible run in the semi-final of the Men’s C1 to reach his first Olympic final an hour later where he placed an amazing seventh overall. Defending lightweight champion Kellie Harrington impressively defeated Italian Alessia Mesiano in the last 16 to advance to the quarter-finals on Wednesday evening (31st July). Her [...]

EVENING REPORT ON DAY 2 FOR TEAM IRELAND

It was good news all round for Team Ireland on the second evening of these Olympic Games. In front of a capacity crowd at the La Defense tonight Sligo swimmer Mona McSharry set a new Irish record of 1:05.51 in the semi-final of the women’s 100m breaststroke as she qualified in style for tomorrow night’s final [...]

AFTERNOON REPORT ON DAY TWO FROM TEAM IRELAND

On the water in Marseilles Sailors Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove impressed to win the third of their 12 qualifying races in the Skiff this afternoon, having earlier placed  fourth in the second race. In boxing Offaly welterweight (66kg) Grainne Walsh was beaten by Hungarian opponent Anna Luca Hamori in the preliminaries this afternoon 4-1.The first ever Irish Women’s Rugby Sevens team at an [...]

MORNING REPORT ON DAY TWO FROM TEAM IRELAND

Three of the five Irish boats in action this morning, including reigning Olympic champions Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan, qualified directly through to the semi-finals of their respective events, with the women’s lightweight double qualifying for the repechage tomorrow where they will have a second chance to secure a semi-final spot, and the women’s four [...]

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