Lauren Price
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Born | Newport,Wales | 25 June 1994|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Weight(s) | Welterweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft5+1⁄2in (166 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stance | Southpaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total fights | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins by KO | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Senior career* | |||
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Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2014 | Cardiff City F.C. | ||
International career | |||
2011 | Wales U17 | 3 | (0) |
2011–2013 | Wales U19 | 12 | (2) |
2012–2013 | Wales | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Lauren Louise PriceMBE(born 25 June 1994)[1]is a Welshprofessional boxer,former amateur boxer and formerkickboxerandfootballer.[2]She has held theWBA,IBO,andRingfemalewelterweightWorld titles since 11 May 2024. She was the first-ever femaleBritishprofessional bo xing champion having won thewelterweighttitle on 6 May 2023 and holding it until vacating the belt when she became World champion. While representing Wales in the amateur sport she won a bronze medal at the2014 Commonwealth Games,becoming the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games bo xing medal. Four years later she surpassed this achievement by winning gold at the2018 Commonwealth Games,followed by a gold at the2019 World Championships.While representing Great Britain, she won gold medals at the2019 European Gamesand2020 Summer Olympics.
As an amateur, Price was simultaneously the holder of the Olympic Games, World, European Games and Commonwealth Games titles at Middleweight through 2019 and 2021, with the European championship (the EBA continental championship distinct from theEuropean Games) being the only major prize eluding her, despite winning three bronze medals
Price also played football for several years withCardiff City,winning the inaugural season of theWelsh Premier Women's Football Leaguein 2013. Having captained Wales at under-19 level, she made herseniordebut in 2012. She gave up playing football in 2014 to focus on her bo xing career.
Early life
[edit]Price was born inNewport,Wales but grew up inYstrad Mynach,Caerphilly,where she was brought up by her grandparents.[3][4]She attendedHeolddu Comprehensive SchoolinBargoed.[5]She showed a keen interest in several sports, taking upfootball,netballandkickbo xingat the age of ten, the last after encouragement from her grandfather.[6]As a kickboxer, Price won a silver medal at a World Championships event in Athens in 2007 at the age of 13, competing against opponents twice her age,[5]and became the youngest ever competitor in the British Championships.[7]She went on to become a four-time world champion and six-time European champion in the sport and later competed inTaekwondo.[4]
Football career
[edit]Club
[edit]Price was spotted by scouts fromCardiff City.She credited her kickbo xing training with helping improve her play, commenting "I could kick a ball a lot further than any of my team mates" and noting that "I might have had a higher pain threshold than everyone else."[6]She was part of the club's under-16 side that won the Welsh section of theTesco Cupin 2010, being named player of the tournament.[8][9]
She progressed to the senior team at Cardiff and won the inauguralWelsh Premier Women's Football Leaguetitle during the 2012–13 season after their decisive 5–2 victory over Wrexham in the final game of the season.[10]Price was named the club's Player of the Year during their title winning season.[11]Price was also named theFootball Association of Wales(FAW) Club Player of the Year.[12]In 2014, Price stepped away from football to concentrate on her bo xing career ahead of the2014 Commonwealth Games.[4]
International
[edit]Having captained Wales at under-19 level,[13]Price made her debut for theWales senior sideon 16 June 2012, replacingSarah Wiltshirein the closing stages of a 1–0 victory overRepublic of Ireland.[14]
Amateur bo xing career
[edit]Price initially took up bo xing as a teenager but became further involved in the sport after watching British fighterNicola Adamswin gold at the2012 Summer Olympicsin London.[4][6]After competing in a single amateur bout at 17, she entered the Women's European and Youth World Championships where she claimed a bronze medal.[4]At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she became the first Welsh woman to claim a bo xing medal in the Commonwealth Games after defeatingKaye Scottin the quarter-finals of thewomen's middleweightdivision to guarantee at least a bronze.[15][16]She metAriane Fortinin the semi-final but suffered a split decision defeat.[17][18]
She claimed another bronze medal at the2016 Women's European Amateur Bo xing Championships.In 2018, she won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, after defeating Caitlin Parker via split decision in the final of the event.[19]In May 2019, Price was selected to compete at the2019 European GamesinMinsk,Belarus,[20]winning the gold medal.[21]
Price competed in the2020 Summer OlympicsinTokyo,[22]beating Dutch boxerNouchka Fontijnin the middleweight semi-final. She went on to win gold againstLi Qianof China, making her the first Welsh boxer of any gender to win an Olympic gold medal.[23][24]
Professional bo xing career
[edit]On 6 May 2023, Price won the first British women's title fight in professional bo xing history, becoming the first female British welterweight champion and the first woman to receive aLonsdale Belt,by defeatingKirstie Bavingtonby unanimous points victory.[25][26][27]
On March 14, 2024 it was announced that Price would challengeJessica McCaskillfor herWBA,IBO,andRingfemalewelterweightWorld titles on May 11, 2024 in Cardiff, Wales.[28][29]Price won the contest by unanimous technical decision after an accidental clash of heads that took place in the fifth round caused an injury to McCaskill's eye and she was ruled unable to continue at the start of round nine. The win made Price Wales’ first female professional bo xing world champion.[30]
Professional bo xing record
[edit]7 fights | 7 wins | 0 losses |
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By knockout | 1 | 0 |
By decision | 6 | 0 |
No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
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7 | Win | 7-0 | Jessica McCaskill | TD | 9 (10),0:02 | 11 May 2024 | Cardiff International Arena,Cardiff,Wales | WonWBA,IBO,andThe Ringfemale welterweight titles |
6 | Win | 6–0 | Silvia Bortot | PTS | 8 | 10 Dec 2023 | Bournemouth International Centre,Bournemouth,England | |
5 | Win | 5–0 | Lolita Muzeya | TD | 6 (8),0:24 | 2 Sep 2023 | Manchester Arena,Manchester, England | Muzeya cut by a head clash in the 5th |
4 | Win | 4–0 | Kirstie Bavington | UD | 10 | 6 May 2023 | Resorts World Arena,Birmingham,England | Won inauguralBritish female welterweight title |
3 | Win | 3–0 | Naomi Mannes | UD | 8 | 11 Mar 2023 | Zénith Paris,Paris,France | |
2 | Win | 2–0 | Timea Belik | TKO | 4 (6),1:18 | 15 Oct 2022 | The O2 Arena,London, England | |
1 | Win | 1–0 | Valgerdur Gudstensdottir | PTS | 6 | 11 Jun 2022 | The SSE Arena Wembley,London,England |
Personal life
[edit]Price studied a Foundation Degree in Football Coaching and Development at theUniversity of South Wales.[31]Price was appointedMember of the Order of the British Empire(MBE) in the2022 New Year Honoursfor services to bo xing.[32][33] Her partner isfeatherweightboxer and fellow southpawKarriss Artingstall.[34][35]
Honours
[edit]Cardiff City
Individual
- FAW Club Player of the Year: 2013[12]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^"Bo xing: PRICE Lauren".Tokyo 2020 Olympics.The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.Archived fromthe originalon 8 August 2021.Retrieved8 August2021.
- ^Penman, Andrew (23 November 2018)."Gwent's Lauren Price wins world bo xing bronze in India".South Wales Argus.Retrieved12 July2019.
- ^"Price - the girl who reached for the moon".BBC Sport.
- ^abcdeWebb, Alex (28 July 2014)."Glasgow 2014: Footballer Lauren Price swaps boots for bo xing".BBC Sport.Retrieved22 October2014.
- ^ab"Kickbo xing: Lauren is a hit with teachers".WalesOnline.Media Wales. 28 June 2007.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^abcWhite, Jim (15 November 2018)."How Olympic hero Nicola Adams inspired next generation of British women boxers – 'She is the person who showed us all it's possible'".The Telegraph.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^"Lauren's a Sporting Role Model".WalesOnline.Media Wales. 22 November 2007.Retrieved12 July2019.
- ^"Lauren Price is right for final flourish".The Express.22 April 2010.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^Phillips, Terry (21 April 2010)."Joe Ledley is guest of honour at Tesco Cup finals".WalesOnline.Media Wales.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^ab"Cardiff City Women win Womens Welsh Premier League title".BBC Sport. 19 May 2013.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^"Lauren Price Scoops Player of the Season".cardifflocalguide.co.uk.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^ab"Bale wins FAW Player of the Year".Sgorio. 8 June 2013.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^"Congratulations to Lauren Price".Football Association of Wales. 13 May 2014.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^Lauren Priceat Soccerway. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^Griffiths, Gareth (30 July 2014)."Commonwealth Games 2014: Women's boxer Lauren Price creates history as Team Wales celebrate record haul in Glasgow".WalesOnline.Media Wales.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^"Bo xing medallist's rise to history".BBC Sport.UK. 1 January 2015.Retrieved30 June2019.
- ^"Glasgow 2014: Wales' Lauren Price proud after historic bronze".BBC Sport. 2 August 2014.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^Penman, Andrew (14 August 2014)."Wales' women inspired by Bargoed bo xing hero Lauren Price".South Wales Argus.UK.Retrieved22 October2014.
- ^"Lauren Price".GB Bo xing. 21 September 2017.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^"Team GB squad announcement for the European Games".Team GB.21 May 2019.Retrieved29 May2019.
- ^Williams, David (30 June 2019)."Olympic hopeful Lauren Price strikes European Games gold in Minsk".South Wales Argus.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^"11 boxers named for Tokyo Games".teamgb.Retrieved31 July2021.
- ^"Lauren Price becomes first Welsh fighter to win Olympic gold as she triumphs in middleweight final".
- ^"Dominant Lauren Price produces accomplished display to win bo xing gold - Team GB's 22nd in Tokyo".Telegraph.8 August 2021.
- ^"Price beats Bavington in historic British title fight".BBC Sport.Retrieved6 May2023.
- ^Hits, Random (13 April 2023)."Lauren Price vs. Kirstie Bavington For Inaugural Women's British Title on May 6".Bo xing Scene.
- ^"Lauren Price to fight Kirstie Bavington for inaugural women's British title".Sky Sports.
- ^Iskenderov, Parviz (14 March 2024)."Jessica McCaskill faces Lauren Price in May in Cardiff, Wales".FIGHTMAG.
- ^"Lauren Price: Olympic champion faces Jessica McCaskill for first pro world title",BBC Sport,12 March 2024
- ^"Dazzling Price wins first world title".BBC Sport.Retrieved11 May2024.
- ^"Price Makes Commonwealth Games History".University of South Wales. 4 August 2014.Retrieved11 July2019.
- ^"No. 63571".The London Gazette(Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N23.
- ^"New Year Honours 2022: Jason Kenny receives a knighthood and Laura Kenny made a dame".BBC Sport.31 December 2021.
- ^"Tokyo Olympics: Lauren Price targets more Olympic success after bo xing gold".BBC. 9 August 2021.Retrieved9 August2021.
- ^"These two Olympic medalists confirmed their love with this cute, casual photo".19 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- Bo xing record for Lauren PricefromBoxRec(registration required)
- Lauren Price - Profile, News Archive & Current RankingsatBox.Live
- Lauren PriceatOlympedia
- Lauren Priceat Soccerway
- Lauren PriceatOlympics
- Lauren PriceatTeam GB
- Lauren Priceat theCommonwealth Games Federation(archived)
- Lauren Priceat theGlasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games(archived)
- Lauren Priceat theGold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games(archived)
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Welsh women boxers
- Sportspeople from Newport, Wales
- AIBA Women's World Bo xing Championships medalists
- Alumni of the University of South Wales
- Boxers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Boxers at the 2019 European Games
- Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Cardiff City Ladies F.C. players
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales
- Commonwealth Games medallists in bo xing
- European Games gold medalists for Great Britain
- European Games medalists in bo xing
- LGBT boxers
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Middleweight boxers
- Olympic boxers for Great Britain
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in bo xing
- People educated at Heolddu Comprehensive School
- Southpaw boxers
- Sportspeople from Caerphilly
- Welsh LGBT sportspeople
- Welsh Olympic medallists
- Welsh women's footballers
- Wales women's international footballers
- Women's association football defenders
- World welterweight bo xing champions
- British Bo xing Board of Control champions
- World Bo xing Association champions
- International Bo xing Organization champions
- The Ring (magazine) champions