Katie Taylor: Road to Gold
Thursday, 15 October 2009 00:00
1998 A young Katie Taylor goes with her dad to his boxing club and gets in the ring on her first night.October 2001 15-year-old KatieTaylor beats Belfast's Alanna Murphy in the first-ever sanctioned female boxing match at the National Stadium in Dublin.
May 2005 Katie Taylor becomes the first Irish woman to win gold at the Senior European Championships in Norway. She's 18 years old.
September 2005 She reaches the quarter-finals of the World Championships in Podolsk, Russia.
September 2006 Warsaw, Poland. Katie wins her second European gold medal in a row, beating reigning world champion Tatiana Chalaya of Chechnya.
November 2006 Katie Taylor wins her first world championship in India, beating Annabella Farias of Argentina in the 60kg final.
October 2007 She wins her third European Championship in a row. This time the competition is in Denmark and she beats Sandra Brugger of Switzerland in the final.
November 2008 Katie Taylor successfully defends her 60kg world title with a convincing win over local heroine Cheng Dong of China in the final.
December 2008 She's named the International Boxing Association's Female Boxer of the Year.
September 2009 Katie Taylor successfully defends her fourth European title in the Ukraine, and doesn't concede a single point in three bouts.
September 2010 Katie Taylor is set to defend her title during the sixth Women's World Boxing Championships in Bridgetown, Barbados.
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