Team Ireland win 13 medals across five sports after 13 days of competition
“No one mentioned my birthday all day and the minute my hand was raised they were all singing away, I think they had a bit of a plan in place, it’s a very special birthday for sure and I’m just absolutely delighted.”
O’Rourke, who boxes out of Olympic BC in Galway, impressed to win on a unanimous decision 5-0 over her French counterpart Davina Myrha Michel, and now aged 26 the Roscommon fighter is only coming into her prime. Already a Tokyo Olympian, a two-time European champion in 2019 and 2022, that ticket to Paris will indeed feel sweet, that task also completed by five Irish boxers, all winning medals in the process.
Earlier there were bronze medals for Dean Clancy and Michaela Walsh, silver for heavyweight Jack Marley, notably the first major medal for Ireland in that weight division in almost 80 years, plus gold again for Kellie Harrington.Wall’s gold medal was the icing on the cake too for a delightful weekend for Irish kick-boxing, winning five medals in all, the 23-year-old securing a dominant victory in the full contact 60kg final, beating Norway’s Mariell Gaassan Straume 3-0.
“It hasn’t really sunk in,” said Wall, a schoolteacher Bray. “I’m sure tomorrow I’ll sit back and reflect. The girl I was fighting is well respected and I knew I’d have it tough, but the game plan worked. I executed everything I needed to.
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