Aoife O'Rourke (born 2 July 1997) is an
Irish amateur boxer. She won a silver medal in the
middleweight
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Boxing Professional
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Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have beg ...
division at the
2025 World Championships. O'Rourke also won gold medals in the same weight category at the
2019
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,
2022
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, and
2024 European championships
as well at the
2023 European Games
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.
She represented Ireland at the
2024 Summer Olympics
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but lost in the first round.
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1997 births
Living people
Irish women boxers
Middleweight boxers
Boxers from County Roscommon
European Games gold medalists for Ireland
European Games medalists in boxing
Boxers at the 2019 European Games
Boxers at the 2023 European Games
Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Ireland
21st-century Irish sportswomen
AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists
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