Aidan Walsh (born March 28, 1997) is an Irish boxer. Walsh trains at Holy Family ABC,

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. His sister is Olympic boxer Michaela Walsh. In 2015, Aidan won gold at light welterweight at the Commonwealth Youth Games. At

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, Aidan won silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Aidan also competed in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where he won Gold alongside his sister Michaela Walsh, who is also a champion amateur boxer. Walsh competed in the men's welterweight competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and won a bronze medal. He lost in the first round at the

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in Paris, going down 4:0 to Makan Traoré from France.

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