{"id":6167,"date":"2026-01-18T08:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:33:04","slug":"kellie-harrington-two-time-olympic-champion-wins-12th-irish-elite-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6167","title":{"rendered":"Kellie Harrington: Two-time Olympic champion wins 12th Irish Elite title"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

Two-time Olympic champion Kellie Harrington claimed her 12th Irish Elite with victory over Kellie McLoughlin at the National Stadium in Dublin.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 36-year-old, who came out of retirement last year, earned a unanimous decision win over the defending lightweight champion McLoughlin in the 60kg bout.<\/p>\n

Belfast’s Michaela Walsh collected a record 14th Irish Elite title with a comfortable victory against Sarah Cunningham in the lightweight decider.<\/p>\n

Another of Northern Ireland’s 2022 Commonwealth Games winners in Jude Gallagher claimed a 3-2 split decision win in the featherweight final against Adam Hession.<\/p>\n

Ulster Elite champion Caitlin Fryers suffered a split decision defeat against Paris Olympian Daina Moorehouse, who she also lost to in the 2023 final.<\/p>\n

Patsy Joyce beat 2025 flyweight champion Clepson dos Santos in the 55kg title fight.<\/p>\n

Olympian Jack Marley took home the heavyweight title with a win over North Down’s Garyn McAllister in the final, while Gilford super-heavyweight Willie John McCartan was awarded a walkover as Martin McDonagh was unable to compete.<\/p>\n

Reigning world middleweight champion Aoife O’Rourke successfully defended her 65kg title against Shauna Kearney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two-time Olympic champion Kellie Harrington claimed her 12th Irish Elite with victory over Kellie McLoughlin at the National Stadium in Dublin. The 36-year-old, who came out of retirement last year, earned a unanimous decision win over the defending lightweight champion McLoughlin in the 60kg bout. Belfast’s Michaela Walsh collected a record 14th Irish Elite title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}