Life story of Irish boxer Kellie Harrington

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Kellie Harrington, the new Olympic champion, was thinking of her fellow competitors in the minutes after the greatest success of her boxing career in Tokyo.

“We are all champions, anyone who steps between those ropes is a champion,” smiled the 31-year-old after victory in the Olympic lightweight final at Kokugikan Arena.

“I might have got the gold - but we are all champions.”
She is openly lesbian.
Harrington's Olympic crown tops an already stellar array of in-ring honours, the 31-year-old boasting world championship gold and silver medals from 2016 and 2018 respectively, as well as prolific podium success at European level.
Much like Taylor in 2012, Harrington entered these games with high hopes, ranked as the number-one seed in the lightweight classification.
Kellie Anne Harrington is an Irish amateur boxer. She was born on 11 December 1989.
She was a silver medalist in the light welterweight division at the 2016 Women's World Boxing Championships. She won the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 2018 World Boxing Championship for Women and on 8 August 2021, she won the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
She won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2017 Women's European Union Boxing Championships and a bronze at the 2018 Women's European Boxing Championships.

She won the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 2018 Women's World Boxing Championships. She was the silver medallist in the light welterweight division at the 2016 Women's World Boxing Championships.

Harrington won the 2020 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, by defeating Caroline Dubois on a split decision in the final.

Harrington was part of the Ireland team at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was one of the flag bearers for Ireland at the opening ceremony on 23 July. She competed in the lightweight division of the boxing competition. In her first fight she defeated Rebecca Nicoli 5–0 to advance to the quarter-finals where she then defeated Imane Khelif 5–0 to guarantee at least a bronze medal. In her semi-final on 5 August Harrington defeated Sudaporn Seesondee 3–2 to advance to the final.

Harrington is from Dublin's north inner city and is a member of St. Mary's Boxing Club, Tallaght. She has stated that she intends to return to her part-time cleaning job at St Vincent's Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin, regardless of her result at the Olympics.
"There have been times in my career where people say: 'the whole country is behind you.' This time I really, really feel the whole country is behind me. People might say that brings pressure, that you have weight on your shoulders.

“But I actually really didn't (feel pressure), because I knew no matter what happened out here, whether it was gold or silver or whatever, I knew I'd made myself proud.

“And I'd made the people of Ireland proud, regardless of the colour of the medal.

"Just being here, putting our little nation on the map ... it's the stuff of dreams.”

[Source: Wikipedia and The Irish Examiner]
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