Olympic champion Katie Taylor admitted that she was involved in a “complete war” with Finland’s Mira Potkonen just after the start of the second round at the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in Jeju, South Korea this morning. The Bray lightweight beat the Finn on a unanimous decision (40-36,40-36,39-37) to advance to Friday’s quarter-final clash […]
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Olympic champion Katie Taylor and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Michaela Walsh posted landslide last-32 victories at the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in Jeju, South Korea yesterday. The Wicklow lightweight and Belfast bantamweight beat Dominica’s Valerian Spicer and Jamaica’s Sarah Joy Rae respectively on unanimous decisions to join Claire Grace in the last 16. Grace
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Double Olympic Medallist Paddy Barnes visited St Clare’s Primary School in Belfast today and received a fantastic welcome from 120 P5 – P7 pupils. Nine pupils in the school are already active members of local boxing clubs and they especially were taken by the insight into the day to day lifestyle of one of Ireland’s
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At the Olympic Council of Ireland Executive Committee Meeting on Monday 20th October 2014 the first ever selections were made for the Inaugural European Games in Baku 2015. The honour of being the first five athletes selected goes to the sports of Boxing and Wrestling. The five athletes selected are: Women’s Boxing Katie
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Katie Taylor, Michaela Walsh,Joanna Lambe, and Claire Grace will represent Ireland at the 8th AIBA World Elite Women’s Championships in Korea in November. Taylor will be aiming for her 5th successive lightweight title at the tournament at the Halla Gymnasium venue on Jeju island between November 13th and 25th. Walsh, boxing for Northern Ireland, was edged out
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Congratulations to Ciara Ginty on winning a silver medal in the Nanjing 2014 women’s lightweight boxing competition. It was a brave performance from a very talented young women but on the day Gonzales of the USA deserved her victory and the Gold Medal. All of our Team Ireland boxers, their coaching team and Olympic Council
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Congratulations to Donegal’s Michael Gallagher who has just won a bronze medal for Team Ireland at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing. He dominated Jin Njong Kim from Korea throughout the three rounds and won 3-0. Gallagher was overjoyed on winning a major championship medal in a very competitive weight division. The Donegal heavyweight beat Korea’s Kim
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Donegal’s Michael Gallagher competes for Team Ireland in the Men’s Heavy (91kg) Bronze Medal scheduled today at 14.15pm (Irish Time) Best wishes to Michael. To watch http://nanjing.ovp.olympic.tv/ http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/ENG/BX/BXR173A_YO2014BXM091102ENG.htm Int. Expo Centre Hall D 25 Aug 21:15 Competitors Player Colour KIM Jin Nyong GALLAGHER Michael
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Christina Desmond narrowly lost her bronze medal contest today in Nanjing in the women’s middle weight category. However its been a fantastic tournament for Christina and she and Irish Boxing can be very proud of her achievements in Nanjing for Team Ireland. Irish coach Billy McLean said “Christina gave it 110% against a very good Australian
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The Boxing competition draw has just been published online. Click on the following ling to view: http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/BX/YO2014_BX_C58_BX0000Y23.pd In the women’s middleweight category Christina Desmond gets a bye into the semi final and faces CHEN from Taipei – click on the link for Christina’s draw: http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/BX/YO2014_BX_C75_BXW075000.pdf Daily Competition Schedule Sat, 23 Aug Start Time Location
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Mayo’s Ciara Ginty, Cork’s Christina Desmond and Donegal’s Michael Gallagher will represent Ireland in the boxing event at the Games. Boxing begins on August 23rd. Draws and schedule are as follows: 23rd August: 14:45 EST Int. Expo Centre Hall D Women’s Light (57-60kg) Preliminaries GINTY Ciara Scheduled FLORIDIA Monica 21:15 EST Int. Expo Centre Hall D
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Ireland, with one gold, two silver and one bronze, courtesy of Hughie Myers, finished in fourth spot in the medals table behind Italy, Moldova and Bulgaria, and in third spot in the rankings table. Ireland’s top-four finishes were achieved minus AIBA World No 2 and No 3 Michael Conlan and Paddy Barnes, who competed in the recent Commonwealth
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