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Who is Kellie Harrington
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If one would’ve asked about the chances of Kellie Harrington rising to worldwide fame last month, her name likely wouldn’t’ve influenced anyone. Her performance at the Summer Olympics has, in turn, changed all that, pushing her from a virtually unknown athlete into the spotlight. Her results even prompted MMA superstar Conor McGregor to congratulate her for her Olympic Gold, saying “ The condition you are in is incredible. Real work ethic. Congratulations Kelly”.

Who is Kellie Harrington?

Born in 1989 in Dublin, Kellie Harrington has been chosen as one of Ireland’s flagbearers for the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She is an amateur boxer with quite a few accomplishments to her name: fighting for St Mary's Boxing Club in Tallaght, Dublin, she won a gold medal at the 2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships, a silver at the 2016 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, silver at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, and another one at the 2017 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships held in Cascia, Italy.

In her everyday life, she is a part-time cleaner at the St Vincent's Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin, and to her long-term relationship with Mandy Loughlin, whom she met through boxing.

From tearaway

She was not always the disciplined athlete she is today. At one point in her teens, she almost ended up in prison. Thankfully, she didn’t - and she thanks boxing for that. “There’s no doubt it was the boxing (that turned my life around. I just needed something and boxing was cheap, cheerful and there’s a boxing club on every second corner in the inner city”, she told the press in 2019. She had no interest in school and had no idea what she would do in her life, drifting around in Dublin with no clear aim in sight. Then, at the age of 14, she was introduced to boxing - and this turned her life around.

…to local hero

Boxing helped her go from a tearaway to a local hero, a positive role model for her community. And this didn’t happen now, that she pocketed one of the most important victories - an Olympic gold medal - but in November 2018, when she won the World Championship. Her story inspired many young girls to turn to boxing, especially after she, along with Olympic rower Claire Lambe and Paralympic swimmer Nicole Turner, were invited to a series of schools to tell their inspiring stories to the kids.

Who is Kellie Harrington? A role model, a local hero, an LGBTQ icon, a World Champion - and since a few days ago, an Olympic champion in the lightweight division.

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