Michaela Walsh (boxer)
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| Born | 5 June 1993[1] Belfast, Northern Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michaela Walsh (born 5 June 1993) is an amateur boxer from Northern Ireland who fights in the featherweight division (54 – 57 kg). Walsh is an Olympian, who competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.
In the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Walsh won a silver medal in the flyweight division.[3] At the 2018 Commonwealth Games she moved to featherweight and again won silver.[3] In the 2022 Commonwealth games held in Birmingham, Michaela won Gold.[3][4]
Michaela and Aidan her brother, became the first brother and sister to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games in boxing, both qualifying in June 2021.
Her brother Aidan is also a boxer who won gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.[5][6]
She boxes out of Emerald boxing club in Belfast.[7]
