Imagine if Gareth Bale – or Jess Fishlock, for that matter – had packed in football at the age of 20 as a full Wales international to take up another sport. Now, consider the reaction if they had not only become an Olympic champion, but also world champion by the time they were still in their 20s.

Lauren Price insists she is looking forward to bringing a women’s world boxing title back to Wales after confirmation of her challenge to American Jessica McCaskill. The date has yet to be announced – as well as the venue – although it is anticipated the fight will be held in Cardiff this summer.

Lauren Price outclassed Silvia Bortot to remain on course for a world title shot in 2024. Wales’ Tokyo Olympic gold medallist took command from the opening round to win comfortably on points in Bournemouth on Sunday night.

Wales’ Olympic gold medallist Lauren Price will face former European champion Silvia Bortot on December 10. The fight takes place on the undercard of Chris Billam-Smith’s WBO world cruiserweight title bout against Mateusz Masternak in Bournemouth.

Lauren Price is already looking ahead to her next professional fight after revealing her pride at making history with her first pro title win. Wales’ Olympic champion made history, beating Kirstie Bavington to become the first professional women’s British welterweight champion.

By Stuart Taylor While football and rugby fans continue to squabble over which sport is Wales’s No.1, boxing managed to deliver a timely ‘remember me’ dig with its resurgence into the Welsh sporting psyche. The metaphorical dig was issued by Cardiff fighter  Joe Cordina who became the 13th Welsh World Champion boxer as he knocked out Kenichi […]

By David Williams Lauren Price will continue to be involved with team GB despite making the move to professional boxing. GB Boxing has announced plans to continue to work with some its former boxers that have signed professional contracts. This means the boxers will continue to train in the GB Boxing gym in Sheffield where […]

Lauren Price . . . she came, she saw, she conquered and now they have painted a telephone box gold in her honour. But what now for Wales’ Olympic boxing champion? Her national team coach with Wales, Colin Jones, tells Tom Prosser of his long-term faith in the fighter and why he believes Price will compete at both the next Commonwealth Games and Olympics. Lauren Price has achieved something no Welsh boxer has ever managed before, but the coach heading Wales’ Commonwealth Games squad in the sport is not surprised. Price has returned home to Ystrad Mynach to a hero’s welcome after becoming Olympic champion in Tokyo – something no Welsh boxer had previously done in history.

By Tom Prosser Welsh boxing star Lauren Price created history for both herself and her country at the Olympics as she became the first person from Wales to win a gold medal for boxing. Price who lives in Ystrad Mynach, battled her way to Olympic glory in the women’s middleweight final early on Sunday morning, defeating China’s Li Qian to take top spot on the podium but her route to success has been a rather unusual one to say the least. When she opted to chase her dream of Olympic boxing glory over her promising club football with Cardiff City, she helped make ends meet by driving a taxi at weekends.

The Tokyo Olympics will be remembered as the Games where Welsh women re-wrote their country’s history. Hannah Mills and Lauren Price not only came home with gold medals, but their achievements were trailblazing firsts for the nation. Together with Matt Richards and Calum Jarvis, they not only contributed to three gold medal events won by Welsh athletes for Great Britain (providing gold for four athletes as swimmers Richards and Jarvis were part of the 4 x 200m freestyle relay squad) but the Welsh female pair have now gone where no others have gone before.

Lauren Price confirmed her status as Wales’ greatest Olympic boxer by winning gold in Tokyo and then dedicated all her achievements to her grandparents. The fighter from Ystrad Mynach dominated her final bout against China’s Li Qian to gain a 5-0 points victory and become the first Welsh boxer to win an Olympic title. Already a world champion in the sport, Price, 27, could now lay claim to being one of Wales’ greatest ever sports stars – male or female – having also won world titles in kickboxing, played 52 times for the Wales women’s football team, and made age group appearances for her country in both netball and taekwondo.

By Paul Jones Welsh boxing history maker Lauren Price is now only one win away from being the first ever Welsh boxer to win an Olympic gold medal. Price, who is also the first ever Welsh female boxer at an Olympics, shrugged off a one-point deduction to edge past her great rival Nouchka Fontijn and reach the Olympic women’s middleweight final via the narrowest of split decisions. “I am into the final now and it is a dream come true. I am not stopping now – my aim is to win that gold. I am going to give it my all,” said a delighted but focused Price.