Michaela Walsh

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Michaela Walsh (born 5 June 1993) is an amateur boxer from Northern Ireland who fights in the featherweight division (54 – 57 kg). Walsh is an Olympian, who competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics. In the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Walsh won a silver medal in the flyweight division. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games she moved to featherweight and again won silver. In the 2022 Commonwealth games held in Birmingham, Michaela won gold. In the 2026 Commonwealth games in Glasgow, Michaela won silver, losing to Jaismine Lamboria in the final. Michaela and Aidan her brother, became the first brother and sister to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games in boxing, both qualifying in June 2021. Her brother Aidan is also a boxer who won gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. She boxes out of Emerald boxing club in Belfast.