Lauren Price
| Lauren Price medal table |
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 Wales
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| World championships | ||
| gold | 2019 | medium weight |
| bronze | 2018 | medium weight |
| European Games | ||
| gold | 2019 | medium weight |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| gold | 2018 | medium weight |
| bronze | 2014 | medium weight |
| European championships | ||
| bronze | 2018 | medium weight |
| bronze | 2016 | medium weight |
| bronze | 2011 | Welterweight |
Lauren Price (* 25. June 1994 in Caerphilly , Wales ) is a Welsh female boxer in the middleweight division . In 2019 she won the first Welsh gold medal at a world boxing championship.
Boxing career
Lauren Price is 1.70 m tall, southpaw and started boxing in 2010. She trains at the Pontypool boxing club and is supervised by Lyndon James, Mark Jones and Tony Borg, among others. In 2011 she won a bronze welterweight medal at the World Youth Championships in Turkey, and in 2012 she came 6th at the European Youth Championships in Poland .
In 2011, she had also participated in the European Adult Championship in the Netherlands and won a bronze medal in the welterweight division, after losing to Marija Badulina in the semi-finals . At the 2012 World Championships in China , she lost to Irina Potejewa in the round of 16 and reached 11th place.
She ended the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland by winning a bronze middleweight medal after losing 2-1 to Ariane Fortin in the semi-finals . In addition, she lost 2-1 to Atheyna Bylon in the round of 16 of the 2014 World Cup in South Korea .
In 2015 she won the British welterweight championships in England and the Queen's Cup in Germany . The following year she started in the middleweight division and lost in the final of the British Championship in Scotland against Natasha Gale, but defeated this in the final of the Queen's Cup in Germany. At the 2016 European Championships in Bulgaria , she lost again in the middleweight semi-finals to Natasha Gale and won bronze.
In 2017 she won the British welterweight championship in England, but lost in the quarter-finals of the EU championships in Italy just 3-2 to Grainne Walsh.
2018 was her most successful year to date. She first won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Australia in April , defeating Goramane Rady, Tamara Thibault and Caitlin Parker. In June she won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Bulgaria, after she was eliminated in the semi-finals against Maria Borutsa. She also finished the 2018 World Cup in India with a bronze medal in November. After victories against Aoife Burke and Elżbieta Wójcik, she was eliminated in the semi-finals with 2: 3 against Nouchka Fontijn . She achieved all three successes in the middleweight division. For these successes, she was voted Britain's amateur boxer of the year.
In April 2019 she won the Cologne Boxing World Cup in Germany . She defeated Irina Schönberger and Sarah Scheurich . She also ended the 2019 European Games in Belarus by winning the gold medal after defeating Aoife O'Rourke, Darima Sandakova and Nouchka Fontijn. After not taking part in the 2019 European Championships, she started at the 2019 World Championships in Russia and won the gold medal. She narrowly defeated Nouchka Fontijn in the final.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the JWM 2011
- ↑ Results of the JEM 2012
- ↑ Results of the EM 2011
- ↑ Results of the 2012 World Cup
- ↑ Results of the CG 2014
- ↑ Results of the 2014 World Cup
- ↑ Results of the EM 2016
- ↑ Results of the EUM 2017
- ↑ Results of the CG 2018
- ↑ Results of the EM 2018
- ↑ Results of the 2018 World Cup
- ↑ Lauren Price crowned best female boxer
- ↑ Results of the World Cup in Cologne 2019
- ↑ Results of the European Games 2019
- ↑ Results of the World Championships 2019
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Price, Lauren |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | welsh female boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caerphilly , Wales |