Kellie Harrington

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Kellie Harrington
Personal information
Nationality Irish
Born (1989-12-11) 11 December 1989 (age 34)
Dublin, Ireland
Sport
Sport Boxing
Rated at Lightweight (60 kg)
Light welterweight (64 kg)
Club St Mary's Boxing Club
(Tallaght, Dublin)
Medal record
Women's amateur boxing
Representing  Ireland
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Lightweight
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Lightweight
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 New Delhi Lightweight
Silver medal – second place 2016 Astana Light welterweight
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Kraków-Małopolska Lightweight[1]
Silver medal – second place 2019 Minsk Lightweight
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Budva Lightweight
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Sofia Lightweight
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Belgrade Lightweight
European Union Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Cascia Lightweight

Kellie Anne Harrington (born 11 December 1989)[2] is an Irish retired amateur boxer. During her stellar[peacock term] career she was 2018 World champion and a double Olympic gold medallist, winning at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024. Harrington also won gold medals at the 2023 European Games and 2022 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships.

Career

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Harrington and Emmet Brennan returning from the 2020 Olympics

She won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2017 Women's European Union Boxing Championships and a bronze at the 2018 Women's European Boxing Championships.[3][4]

She won the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 2018 Women's World Boxing Championships. She was the silver medallist in the light welterweight division at the 2016 Women's World Boxing Championships.[5]

2020 Summer Olympics

Harrington won the 2020 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, by defeating Caroline Dubois on a split decision in the final.[6]

Harrington was part of the Ireland team at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was one of the flag bearers for Ireland at the opening ceremony on 23 July.[7] She competed in the lightweight division of the boxing competition. In her first fight, she defeated Rebecca Nicoli 5–0 to advance to the quarter-finals,[8] where she then defeated Imane Khelif 5–0 to guarantee at least a bronze medal.[9] In her semi-final on 5 August, Harrington defeated Sudaporn Seesondee 3–2 to advance to the final.[10][11][12] In her final on 8 August, Harrington defeated Beatriz Ferreira 5–0 winning the gold medal, becoming Ireland's third Olympic boxing champion.[13] President Michael D. Higgins, Taoiseach Micheál Martin congratulated Harrington on her win, along with Katie Taylor and Michael Carruth.[14][15]

2023 European Games

Harrington won gold at the 2023 European Games in Poland, defeating Natalia Shadrina from Serbia in the final by unanimous decision.[16][17]

2024 Summer Olympics

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Harrington was given a bye into the second round,[18] where she defeated Italy's Alessia Mesiano by unanimous decision.[19][20] In the third round she secured another unanimous decision win, this time over Angie Valdés from Columbia.[21][22] Harrington defeated Brazil's Beatriz Ferreira by 4:1 split decision in the semi-finals.[23][24] In the final she defeated Yang Wenlu from China on a 4:1 split decision and took the gold medal.[25][26] After the fight Harrington announced her retirement from boxing.[27][28]

Recognition

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Banner in support of Harrington, Arbour Hill

For International Women's Day in 2022, An Post launched a stamp collection of Irish sportswomen which featured Harrington and others.[29]

Harrington was joint grand marshal with Ellen Keane at the Dublin St Patrick's Day parade on 17 March 2022.[30]

In 2022, she was awarded the freedom of Dublin city.[31]

Personal life

Harrington is from Dublin's north inner city and is a member of St. Mary's Boxing Club, Tallaght.[32] At age 15, she developed an interest in boxing, and attempted to join the local boxing club, only to be told that they would not accept girls.[33] But Harrington persisted, was eventually admitted, and made rapid progress in her boxing career.[33]

She has stated that she intends to return to her part-time cleaning job at St Vincent's Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin, regardless of her result at the Olympics.[34]

Harrington has been in a relationship with Mandy Loughlin since 2009 after meeting her through boxing.[35] This made her one of at least 180 openly gay athletes at the 2020 Olympic games.[36] They married in Dublin on 8 April 2022.[37]

In October 2022, Harrington released her autobiography called Kellie which was written with Roddy Doyle.[38]

On 2 April 2023, Harrington announced her withdrawal from social media following a backlash as a result of a tweet from GB News relating to immigration, which she shared and subsequently deleted. She refused to address the issue in a subsequent Newstalk interview,[39] but later issued a statement and an apology.[40]

References

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External links

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  • Kellie Harrington on TwitterLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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