Caitlin Parker

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| birth_name = Caitlin Anne Parker

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| birth_place = Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia

| other_names = Caity

| weight_class = Middleweight

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Caitlin Anne Parker {{post-nominals|list=OLY}} (born 17 April 1996) is an Australian amateur boxer, who became the first female boxer from Australia to win an Olympic medal when she took bronze at the 2024 Paris Games. Parker has also won silver and bronze medals at two Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2014 Youth Olympics.

Early life

Parker was born on 17 April 1996 in Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia.{{cite web |title=Caitlin Parker Results {{!}} Commonwealth Games Australia |url=https://commonwealthgames.com.au/athletes/caitlin-parker/ |website=commonwealthgames.com.au |access-date=26 July 2024 |language=en-AU |date=2 April 2018}} She began training in taekwondo and boxing at the age of 11 after her father refused to let her walk to school alone without learning self defence.{{Cite web |title=Caitlin Parker {{!}} Sport Australia Hall of Fame |url=https://sahof.org.au/award-winner/caitlin-parker/ |access-date=11 May 2022 |website=SAHOF |language=}}{{Cite news |last=Yussuf |first=Ahmed |date=15 March 2021 |title=Parker on a mission to make boxing history at Tokyo Games |language= |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-16/caitlin-parkers-mission-to-make-australian-olympic-history/13248934 |access-date=11 May 2022}}

Career

Parker competed at the 2014 Youth Olympics where she won a bronze medal in the 75kg event.{{cite web |title=Caitlin Parker |url=https://www.olympics.com.au/olympians/caitlin-parker/ |website=Australian Olympic Committee |access-date=26 July 2024 |language=en-AU |date=15 March 2024}}

She competed in the Commonwealth Games in 2018, where she won a silver medal in the middleweight event,{{cite web |title=Boxing {{!}} Athlete Profile: Caitlin PARKER - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/boxing/athlete-profile-n6031123-caitlin-parker.htm |website=results.gc2018.com |accessdate=27 October 2020 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030215600/https://results.gc2018.com/en/boxing/athlete-profile-n6031123-caitlin-parker.htm |url-status=dead }} and in 2022 where she won a bronze medal in the middleweight event.

She competed in the 2020 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament in March 2020 where she qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the Olympics, she lost to Atheyna Bylon in the round of 16.

Parker became the first Australian female boxer to win an Olympic medal when she won bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics.{{cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-09/paris-olympics-caitlin-parker-and-charlie-senior-boxing-bronze/104203772|title=Boxers Caitlin Parker and Charlie Senior both earn bronze medals in rare double for Team Australia at the Paris Olympics|newspaper=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=8 August 2024}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/09/paris-olympics-boxing-australias-wait-for-gold-goes-on-as-parker-and-senior-secure-bronze|title=Australia's wait for Olympic boxing gold goes on as Parker and Senior secure bronze|work=The Guardian|accessdate=8 August 2024 |last1=Snape |first1=Jack }}

References

External links

{{BoxRec}}
{{Olympics.com|caitlin-parker}}
{{Olympedia}}
{{AOC profile}}
{{CGA profile|caitlin-parker}}
[https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/caitlin-parker_1940134 Caitlin Parker] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
{{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|52545|Caitlin Anne Parker}}
{{Instagram}}

Category:1996 births

Category:Living people

Category:Australian women boxers

Category:Middleweight boxers

Category:Martial artists from Perth, Western Australia

Category:Boxers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Category:Boxers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia

Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia

Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing

Category:Boxers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Category:Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics