Katie Taylor


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Birth date
Age
02/07/1986 
26
Height
Gender
165 cm / 5'5" 
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Sport
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RankEventYearLocation
World Championships
1Light (60kg)2012Qinhuangdao, CHN
1Light (60kg)2010Bridgetown, BAR
1Light (60kg)2008Ningbo, CHN
1Light (60kg)2006Podolsk, RUS
European Championships
1Light (60kg)2011Rotterdam, NED
Strandja Memorial
2Light (60kg)2011Pazardzhik, BUL
Usti
3Light (60kg)2010Usti nad Labem, CZE

Hobbies

Going to the cinema. (irishcentral.com, 17 Mar 2010)

Club name

St. Fergal's Boxing club, Bray, IRL

Coach

Peter Taylor [father] (IRL) (BBC, 16 Mar 2012)

Sporting relatives

She also represents Ireland in football. (abs-cbnnews.com, 10 May 2012)

Other sports

Her father was the 1986 Irish senior light heavyweight boxing champion. (BBC, 16 Mar 2012; wban.org, 28 Jan 2009)

Additional information

Start of sporting career
She took up the sport at age 12. (BBC, 16 Mar 2012)

Reason for taking up this sport
She grew up watching her father shadow box in the family kitchen, all the time copying his moves. (irishcentral.com, 17 Mar 2010)

Ambitions
Winning a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (irishcentral.com, 17 Mar 2010)

Training
She trains twice a day, six days a week.
(irishcentral.com, 17 Mar 2010)

Most influential person in career
Her father, who is also her coach.
"I don't think I could have done what I've done in boxing without my dad in the corner." (irishcentral.com, 17 Mar 2010)

Awards
In 2008, she was awarded the AIBA [International Boxing Association] Female Boxer of the Year.
(wban.org, 28 Jan 2009)

General
PIONEERING PUNCHER
She broke new ground in Ireland for women's boxing at the age of 15. It was then that she fought in the country's first officially sanctioned women's fight. (bbc.co.uk, 26 Jul 2011)

POSTER GIRL
She was one of the faces of the movement to get women's boxing accepted as an Olympic sport for the 2012 Games in London. (BBC, 16 Mar 2012)

STUDY
She dropped out of an arts degree at UCD (University College Dublin) and a sports and fitness course at Sallynoggin College simply because study got in the way of her training.
(irishcentral.com, 17 Mar 2010)



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