Lauren Louise Price MBE (born 25 June 1994)^[2] is a Welsh professional boxer, former amateur boxer and former kickboxer and footballer.^[3] She has held the British welterweight title since May 2023, and is the first female to hold the title. 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.

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Lauren Price MBE
Lauren Price in 2021
Born	(1994-06-25) 25 June 1994 (age 29) Newport, Wales
Statistics
Weight class	Middleweight
Height	5 ft 5+1⁄2 in (166 cm)[1]
Stance	Southpaw[2]
Medal record Women's amateur boxing Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Middleweight European Games 2019 Minsk Middleweight Representing  Wales World Championships 2019 Ulan-Ude Middleweight 2018 New Delhi Middleweight European Championships 2011 Rotterdam Welterweight 2016 Sofia Middleweight 2018 Sofia Middleweight Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Middleweight 2014 Glasgow Middleweight

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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.

Price was born in Newport, Wales, but grew up in Ystrad Mynach, Caerphilly, where she was brought up by her grandparents.^[4][5] She attended Heolddu Comprehensive School in Bargoed.^[6] She showed a keen interest in several sports, taking up football, netball and kickboxing at the age of ten, the last after encouragement from her grandfather.^[7] As a kickboxer, Price won a silver medal at a World Championships event in Athens in 2007 at the age of 13, competing against opponents twice her age,^[6] and became the youngest ever competitor in the British Championships.^[8] She went on to become a four-time world champion and six-time European champion in the sport and later competed in Taekwondo.^[5]

Price initially took up boxing as a teenager but became further involved in the sport after watching British fighter Nicola Adams win gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.^[5][7] After competing in a single amateur bout at 17, she entered the Women's European and Youth World Championships where she claimed a bronze medal.^[5] At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she became the first Welsh woman to claim a boxing medal in the Commonwealth Games after defeating Kaye Scott in the quarter-finals of the women's middleweight division to guarantee at least a bronze.^[16][17] She met Ariane Fortin in the semi-final but suffered a split decision defeat.^[18][19]

She claimed another bronze medal at the 2016 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships. In 2018, she won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, after defeating Caitlin Parker via split decision in the final of the event.^[20] In May 2019, Price was selected to compete at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus,^[21] winning the gold medal.^[22]

Price competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,^[23] beating Dutch boxer Nouchka Fontijn in the middleweight semi-final. She went on to win gold against Li Qian of China, making her the first Welsh boxer of any gender to win an Olympic gold medal.^[24][25]

Price was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to boxing.^[26][27]

On 6 May 2023, Price won the first British women's title fight in boxing history, becoming the first female British welterweight champion and the first woman to receive a Lonsdale Belt, by defeating Kirstie Bavington by unanimous points victory.^[28][29][30]

On March 14, 2024 it was announced that Price would challenge Jessica McCaskill for her WBA and Ring Magazine welterweight titles on May 11, 2024 in Cardiff, Wales.^[31][32]

Price studied a Foundation Degree in Football Coaching and Development at the University of South Wales.^[33] Her partner is featherweight boxer and fellow southpaw Karriss Artingstall.^[34][35]

Cardiff City

• Welsh Premier Women's Football League; 2012–13^[11]

Individual

• FAW Club Player of the Year: 2013^[13]