There is no wintry trip back to Roscommon on Friday night for Ireland’s recently minted boxing world champion Aoife O’Rourke.
Her 5-0 win over Turkey’s Busra Isildar in Liverpool last month brought a second gold medal back to the O’Rourke household to neatly complete a family circle. Her sister Lisa, who is five years younger, was the 2022 world champion.
Although siblings have fought at major events before for Ireland − Aidan and Michaela Walsh competed in the Tokyo Olympics − sisters becoming boxing world champions is unparalleled.
But Aoife, also a three-time European champion, is shunning the farming comforts of Castlerea and jumping on a plane to Germany to compete in Hyrox Hamburg, a global fitness competition which she won earlier this year with Lisa, the pair becoming the World Hyrox doubles champion
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