Caitlin Parker (born 17 April 1996) is an Australian

amateur boxer Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practiced at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations. Amateur boxing bouts are short in duration, comprising three rounds of three ...

who won a silver medal at the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

. She also won bronze at the 2014 Youth Olympics and competed at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

Early life

Parker was born on 17 April 1996 in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Western Australia. She began training in

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. T ...

and boxing at the age of 11 after her father refused to let her walk to school alone without learning self defence.

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* 1996 births Living people Australian women boxers Middleweight boxers Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia Boxers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Boxers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Boxers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Australia 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists {{Australia-boxing-bio-stub