REVISED – Ireland’s Olympic Boxing Medal Winners
Boxing accounts for more than half the medals Ireland have won across 29 Olympic Games. Before Tokyo Irish boxing boasted
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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,
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On This Day: October 5th
2011: John Joe Nevin scored a 19:17 win over Uzbek Orzubek Shayimov to become the first Irishman to win two
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On This Day: August 7th
2012: Mick Conlan won a brilliant bronze at the London Olympics. The Belfast flyweight defeated Frenchman Nordine Oubaali (22-18) in
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On This Day: July 29th
1980: Belfast flyweight Hugh Russell defeated North Korean Ryon-Sik Yo on a 3-2 split decision to guarantee himself bronze at
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Ireland at the 1980 Moscow Olympics
By Bernard O’Neill – IABA Press Officer Hughie Russell wrote another illustrious page in the history of Irish boxing at
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