Katie Taylor
DOB: 2/6/86 Event: Lightweight boxing Club: St. Fergal's Boxing Club
Last Updated: 19/12/12 2:34pm
Lightweight double World Champion boxing, Katie Taylor from Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, started boxing in 1998 and comes from a family with a boxing background.
Katie's coach at the St. Fergal's Boxing Club in Bray is her father Peter who was the 1986 Irish senior light heavyweight champion boxer and her mother is a boxing referee.
Katie Taylor first made Irish boxing history, at age 15, on October 31, 2001 in the first officially sanctioned women's bout ever held in Ireland. She fought 16-year-old Alanna Audley of Belfast at the National Stadium in Dublin in the first of three female contests on a sixteen-bout amateur card. Katie Taylor won over three 90-second rounds by 23-12.
Katie made Irish boxing history again at age 18 in May 2005 when she became the first Irish woman to win a Gold Medal at the Senior European Boxing Championships.
Katie won Olympic gold at London 2012 and has also won four World Amateur Championships titles as well five European Senior titles!
Katie is an inspirational character and as Olympic and World Champion, five times European Champion and captain of the Irish Female Football Team, she represents her country at the highest levels in both boxing and football.
