WALKER Kurt Anthony

7 Mar 1995
26
Male
LISBURN
 
Great Britain

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
BOX Boxing Men's Feather (52-57kg) 5

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Kokugikan Arena
ESP
QUILES BROTONS JQUILES BROTONS Jose
0
IRL
WALKER KAWALKER Kurt Anthony
5
WP
Finished
Kokugikan Arena
UZB
MIRZAKHALILOV MMIRZAKHALILOV Mirazizbek
1
IRL
WALKER KAWALKER Kurt Anthony
4
WP
Finished
Kokugikan Arena
IRL
WALKER KAWALKER Kurt Anthony
2
USA
RAGAN DRAGAN Duke
3
WP
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Championships
RankEventYearLocation
5Feather2019Yekaterinburg, RUS
17Bantam2017Hamburg, GER

European Championships
RankEventYearLocation
1Bantam2019Minsk, BLR
3Bantam2017Kharkiv, UKR

Golden Belt
RankEventYearLocation
3Bantam2018Iasi, ROU
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Athlete
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Partner Ria, daughter Layla [2020]
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English
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Canal Boxing Academy [Lisburn, GBR]
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Noel Reynolds [club]
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He began boxing at age 10. (lisburntoday.co.uk, 14 Apr 2021)
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"I was running around the streets and I got bored of it, so I decided to take up boxing." (SportsAid, 01 Jan 2016)
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To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (bbc.com, 21 Feb 2021)
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From Monday to Friday he trains at Sport Ireland's IABA High Performance Unit in Dublin. (bbc.com, 21 Feb 2021)
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Winning gold in the bantamweight category at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. (thesun.ie, 30 Jun 2019)
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US boxer Floyd Mayweather. (SportsAid, 01 Jan 2016)

General Interest

Olympic qualifying results
He secured a spot for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo through the IOC Boxing Task Force [BTF] rankings. (irishtimes.com, 16 Feb 2021)

General
TOUGH YEAR
His daughter Layla was born three months prematurely in May 2020. At one point doctors feared she might not live, but at about age two weeks her condition began to improve. "When she was two weeks old the doctor brought us in and told us she had six hours to improve or she wouldn't make it. He was crying as well, telling us that. We got her christened in the incubator, it was mad. She stayed the same for the next hour or two but then bang, she just started picking up and improving. Thankfully she has just kept on improving ever since. Boxing couldn't have been further from my mind through all that. For a while it was as if I wasn't even a boxer because I didn't think about it once. You're just in a bubble. If I'd qualified for the Olympics, I wouldn't have gone. No way. Some things are much more important. My daughter would have come first. The way things have worked out, the Olympics being postponed is a blessing in disguise." (irishnews.com, 18 Aug 2020)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
WP:
Win on Points
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