Karriss Artingstall (born 23 November 1994) is an English

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. She won a bronze medal at the

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, silver at the 2019 European Championships and bronze at the 2019 World Championships. She is a former member of the

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. Her partner is

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amateur boxer

Lauren Price Lauren Louise Price (born 25 June 1994) is a Welsh amateur boxer, and former kickboxer and footballer. While representing Wales she won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games ...

Boxing career

At national level, Artingstall won gold medals at the 2012 and 2013 Junior Championships and the 2018 Elite Championships. In 2019 she won a silver medal at the

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, defeating Mona Mestiaen of France (5:0) in the preliminaries; Jennifer Fernández Romero of Spain (5:0) in the quarter-finals; Stanimira Petrova of Bulgaria (5:0) in the semi-finals; before losing to

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of Italy (0:5) in the final. She then won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships, defeating Yarisel Ramirez of the United States (5:0), Jo Son-hwa of North Korea (3:0), and Mijgona Samadova of Tajikistan (5:0) in the preliminaries; Yodgoroy Mirzaeva of Uzbekistan (5:0) in the quarter-finals; before losing to eventual winner

Nesthy Petecio Nesthy Alcayde Petecio (born April 11, 1992) is a Philippines, Filipino amateur boxer. She won a silver medal in the inaugural Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Women's featherweight, women's featherweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, b ...

of the Philippines (4:1) in the semi-finals.

2020 Olympics

In a bid to secure a place at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Artingstall competed in the 2020 European Olympic Qualifiers. She won her first bout, defeating Helina Bruyevich of Bulgaria (5:0) in the preliminaries but suffered defeat against Stanimira Petrova of Bulgaria (1:4) in the quarter-finals. Artingstall was able to secure her place after defeating Stephanie Thour of Sweden (5:0) in a box-off. Her first bout of the Olympics came against Keamogetse Sadie Kenosi of Botswana, with Artingstall emerging victorious with a score of 5:0. Following a 5:0 victory against

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of Brazil, Artingstall advanced to the quarter-finals to defeat

Skye Nicolson Skye Brittany Nicolson (born 27 August 1995) is an Australian professional boxer. As an amateur she competed in the featherweight event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal. Nicolson competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In h ...

of Australia (3:2). She lost her semi-final bout against

Sena Irie is a Japanese amateur boxer who won a gold medal in the inaugural women's featherweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She became the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Biography Irie was born in Yonago, Japan in ...

of Japan (3:2) to secure a

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bronze medal.

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