{"id":680598,"date":"2026-05-19T10:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680598\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:35:13","slug":"niamh-mitchell-wins-bronze-for-boxing-scotland-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680598\/","title":{"rendered":"Niamh Mitchell wins bronze for Boxing Scotland in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 19-year-old travelled to Lithuania, alongside five others, to compete in the restigious Algirdas Socikas Tournament, last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Competing at lightweight (60kg), the talented star, who competes for Bowhill Miners Boxing Club, headed into the event having won a pair of gold medals at continental competition in the space of three weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Firstly, in Hungary, she took top honours at the international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunfermlinepress.com\/sport\/25967092.boxer-niamh-mitchell-wins-gold-scotland-hungary\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bocskai Tournament<\/a>, winning all four of her bouts, before following that up with another first place in Finland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunfermlinepress.com\/sport\/26019630.niamh-mitchell-wins-boxing-gold-scotland-finland\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gee Bee Tournament<\/a>, held in Helsinki, she defeated Kazakhstan&#8217;s Anar Tursynbek, and Italy&#8217;s Ginevra Muzzi, to set up a final with the Netherlands&#8217; Maud van der Toorn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Niamh claimed victory by unanimous decision, which her club coach, James White, described as &#8220;a career best performance&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In her opener in Lithuania, she took on Ugne Vasiliauskaite, of the host country, in the quarter-final, and produced another winning performance to reach the semi-final.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Another Lithuanian opponent, Ana Starovoitova, stood between Niamh and a place in another final, for the chance of a gold medal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, after a spirited contest between the pair, it was Starovoitova who came out on top, securing a final berth as Niamh, who also coaches with Rosyth Boxing Club, picked up a bronze gong.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She will hope to be part of Team Scotland&#8217;s squad in the ring at this summer&#8217;s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, as she continues to add to her impressive medal collection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Prior to the most recent trio of tournaments, she won GB Three Nations gold, and a silver medal at the USA Boxing Summer festival, last year, which also saw her compete at the inaugural World Boxing Championships in Liverpool.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 2022, Niamh also made history by becoming the first female boxer to win gold for Scotland at a major international competition by picking up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunfermlinepress.com\/news\/23055270.boxing-rosyths-niamh-mitchell-winning-european-junior-championships-gold-scotland\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EUBC<\/a> (European Boxing Confederation) European Junior Championship, 2kg light bantamweight, title.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Commonwealth Games, which will take place in Glasgow between July 23 and August 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 19-year-old travelled to Lithuania, alongside five others, to compete in the restigious Algirdas Socikas Tournament, last week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-680598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}