Gold medal winner Kellie Harrington joins an exclusive club 

Kellie Harrington was only the eighth Irish boxer to contest an Olympic final

Ireland’s Kellie Harrington (red) celebrates after winning the gold with Coach Zaur Antia and Coach John Conlan

When Kellie Harrington stepped into the ring with her Brazilian opponent Beatriz Ferreira on this Sunday morning in the lightweight women’s final she was doing so on the 29th anniversary of what was Ireland’s greatest day in Olympic boxing. 

In Barcelona, on August 8, 1992, Michael Carruth and Wayne McCullough contested Olympic finals within an hour of each other with Carruth winning the nation’s first boxing title.