This is huge! Double Olympic Champion Kellie Harrington could make a return to the ring. The 35-year-old seemed to have hung up her gloves after securing her second gold medal at the Paris Olympics last year, but IABA performance director Jon Mackey explained that Harrington is still involved in the high-performance unit even though she […]
5 months ago
Things would have looked bleak if the vote had gone the other way. Ireland’s hopes of competing at future Olympic Games have been revived after the Irish Athletic Boxing Association passed a crucial vote to remove all references to the International Boxing Association (IBA) from their constitution. Requiring a 51% majority, 73 of the 145 […]
1 year ago
And the crowd went wild! Two-time Olympic champion, Kellie Harrington, joined The Wolfe Tones on stage at Electric Picnic last night. During the legends spot on the main stage, the crowd went absolutely wild as they invited Kellie Harrington up on the stage. As she walked on to the stage draped in the tricolour, the […]
1 year ago
Harrington is aiming to win her second Olympic gold medal. Kellie Harrington takes on China’s Yang Wenlu in the Women’s Lightweight Olympic boxing final on Tuesday night. The Dublin native, who won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Games, is aiming to become the first Irish boxer to win two Olympic gold medals. Harrington will also […]
1 year ago
Ireland’s hopes of future Olympic medals could be set to take something of a hit with speculation that boxing and lightweight rowing will not be on the roster for Los Angeles 2028. Between them, boxing and lightweight rowing have accounted for more than half of Ireland’s total Olympic medal tally. In our Olympic history, Ireland’s […]
2 years ago
Having secured Olympic qualification the day prior, Harrington went on the complete the perfect medal quartet. Kellie Harrington claimed Gold on Saturday evening at the European Games in Krakow, Poland. Outshining her opponent Natalia Shadrina from Serbia, the Dublin boxer claimed a unanimous decision in the women’s lightweight (60kg) final. With last night’s victory, Harrington […]
2 years ago