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Boxing: Hannah Walker focused on making Commonwealth Games 2020

Kristin Macfarlane
By Kristin Macfarlane
Bay of Plenty Times·
23 Oct, 2018 08:32 PM3 mins to read

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Tauranga boxer Hannah Walker is proving her talent, taking another win at the weekend. Photo / Supplied

Tauranga boxer Hannah Walker is proving her talent, taking another win at the weekend. Photo / Supplied

At just 16 Hannah Walker has fought 18 boxing fights and won 16 - the latest against Australia's top fighter in her division.

That win is what she hopes will be part of her journey towards reaching her four-year goal of representing New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games.

Walker, who fights under the Tauranga Boxing Club, won a three-round, two-minute junior lightweight bout against Australian Golden Glove champion Keana Welsh in a closely fought match in Auckland on Saturday.

The match-up was part of the sixth round of the Anzac Super Series, pitting top Australian and Kiwi boxers against each other in a bid to develop youth boxing through international competition.

Hannah described the fight as "challenging".Hannah's coach, and dad, Chris Walker says both fighters worked hard with the Tauranga boxer taking the win in a split decision.

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"Hannah applied good controlled pressure which secured the first two rounds, a strong final round from Keana made the bout competitive," Chris says.

"It was actually a really good, competitive fight," Chris says.

Hannah's win means she has fought two International bouts and taken two wins in the Anzac series. Her first win was in July.

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"The series is quite a good opportunity for young boxers coming through to get international experience," he says.

It also follows other recent successes including being awarded an unopposed national title at the Boxing New Zealand National Championships in Christchurch earlier this month, after being the only boxer to make the weight in the Junior Female Lightweight division.

Hannah says the success she has had comes down to the hard work she puts in as well as the time her coach/father invests in her training efforts too.

"I feel like I have that success because of all the time I put in to training."

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Hannah put on her first pair of gloves for a training session when she was about 12. It was inevitable, really.

"I was just around it [boxing] for so long."

She fell in love with the sport from that moment and now has high hopes for her own future in the sport and is basing all of her training and fights around making the Commonwealth Games in 2022.

"That'll be my main goal in the future."

Chris is confident in his daughter's ability, saying she is heading in the right direction towards achieving that goal, and even coming away with a medal.

In the meantime however, Hannah has plenty of training to do before then.

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Although the Anzac series was her last fight for the year, Chris says she will be using the downtime to until February to focus on general fitness and strength training.

Meanwhile, as part of this weekend's Clash Of The Corporates fight night at QE2 Memorial Hall, a professional cruiserweight bout will be the main card of the night between Tauranga's Jonathan Taylor and Auckland's junior Tapuni.

Tickets are available at Tauranga Box Health and Fitness.

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