WALKER Kurt Anthony

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)