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Boxing accounts for more than half the medals Ireland have won across 29 Olympic Games. Before Tokyo Irish boxing boasted

Those That Went Before – Ireland’s Olympic boxing medal winners

Boxing accounts for more than half the medals Ireland have won across 28 Olympic Games. Fifteen fighters, sixthteen Olympic medals,

1956: Dublin welterweight Fred Tiedt guaranteed silver at the Melbourne Olympics with a points win over home favourite Kevin Hogarth.

1986: Damien Denny defeated Singapore welterweight Mohamed Mukhlis on points to secure a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in

Ireland took home its largest ever haul of Olympic boxing medals – matched in London 2012 – from the 1956

Boxing has long been Ireland’s most successful Olympic sport, taking in 16 of our 28 medals in total. However, the