The Irish boxing workforce has landed in Germany to nice tune their preparations for the Olympic Video games in Paris.
Ten Irish boxers will compete in Paris – Eire’s largest workforce for an Olympics because the 1960 version in Rome.
For the following two weeks, the Irish hopefuls might be at a coaching camp in Saarburcken, Germany.
Eire will prepare alongside Germany, Cuba, Mongolia, India, Australia and the USA, whose head coach is Billy Walsh, the previous Irish boxing coach.
Eire has received 18 Olympic medals in boxing and the category of 2024 consists of the reigning ladies’s light-weight champion Kellie Harrington.
“I’m heading out for my second Olympic Video games, and I can’t wait,” Harrington mentioned.
“It’s an enormous workforce, we now have ten boxers, which is incredible. The most important distinction between Tokyo and this Olympics is that there might be folks within the crowd, and with that a variety of noise, so will probably be all about us controlling our feelings.
“I’m glad to be a part of historical past, as this would be the hundredth yr that Group Eire competed within the Olympic Video games – so we’re already a part of historical past.”
The workforce of 10 boxers and 4 coaches is led by Excessive Efficiency Director Tricia Heberle
TeamKellie Harrington (Dublin) Girls’s 60kg; Aidan Walsh (Belfast) Males’s 71kg; Aoife O’Rourke (Castlerea) Girls’s -75kg; Daina Moorehouse (Bray) Girls’s -50kg; Dean Clancy (Sligo) Males’s 63.5kg; Grainne Walsh (Tullamore) Girls’s -66kg; Jude Gallagher (Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone) Males’s -57kg; Jennifer Lehane (Ashbourne, Co. Meath) Girls’s -54kg; Jack Marley (Sallynoggin, Dublin) Males’s -92kg; Michaela Walsh (Belfast) Girls’s -57kg
StaffTricia Heberle – Efficiency Director & Group Chief; Zauri Antia – Head Coach; Damian Kennedy – Coach; Lynne McEnery – Coach; James Doyle – Coach; Jim Clover – Physician; Lorcan McGee – Physio; Paula Fitzpatrick – Physiologist
