Lauren Price MBE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Lauren Price in 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 June 1994 Newport, Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight(s) | Welterweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 5+1⁄2 in (166 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stance | Southpaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boxing record | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total fights | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Senior career* | |||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2014 | Cardiff City F.C. | ||
| International career | |||
| 2011 | Wales U17 | 3 | (0) |
| 2011–2013 | Wales U19 | 12 | (2) |
| 2012–2013 | Wales | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Lauren Louise Price MBE (born 25 June 1994)[1] is a Welsh professional boxer, former amateur boxer and former kickboxer and footballer.[2] She has held the WBA, IBO, and Ring female welterweight World titles since 11 May 2024. She was the first-ever female British professional boxing champion having won the welterweight title on 6 May 2023 and holding it until vacating the belt when she became World champion. While representing Wales in the amateur sport she won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal. Four years later she surpassed this achievement by winning gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, followed by a gold at the 2019 World Championships. While representing Great Britain, she won gold medals at the 2019 European Games and 2020 Summer Olympics.
As an amateur, Price was simultaneously the holder of the Olympic Games, World, European Games and Commonwealth Games titles at Middleweight through 2019 and 2021, with the European championship (the EBA continental championship distinct from the European Games) being the only major prize eluding her, despite winning three bronze medals
Price also played football for several years with Cardiff City, winning the inaugural season of the Welsh Premier Women's Football League in 2013. Having captained Wales at under-19 level, she made her senior debut in 2012. She gave up playing football in 2014 to focus on her boxing career.
- ^ "Boxing: PRICE Lauren". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Penman, Andrew (23 November 2018). "Gwent's Lauren Price wins world boxing bronze in India". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 12 July 2019.