{"id":111162,"date":"2025-09-01T04:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111162\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T04:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:43:09","slug":"jenny-lehane-focused-on-la-2028-as-her-boxing-journey-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111162\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Lehane focused on LA 2028 as her boxing journey continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having only started boxing in her 20s, Jenny Lehane’s journey in the sport has seen her grow from strength to strength.<\/p>\n

Competing in taekwondo internationally into her 20s, the switch to boxing has been a successful one.<\/p>\n

The Meath woman began as a teacher, but outside the classroom, her priorities were always split between the two sports.<\/p>\n

However, after 2021, it became clear what success in boxing could look like.<\/p>\n

“It was only after two or three years I decided to park the taekwondo.<\/p>\n

“I really admired the sport. I wasn\u2019t too much of a boxing fan growing up, it was more so the skill involved. There is two people in a ring, with their left hand and their right hand. Just to see the skill involved, it was something that really excited me.<\/p>\n

“Once I got into it, there was so much to learn, I think that is what inspired me.”<\/p>\n

“Once I won my first elite title in 2021, dreams started to appear in the back of my head. What could happen if I fully went at this?<\/p>\n

“It was only after a few years bigger dreams started to develop.”<\/p>\n

Lehane achieved her dream in qualifying for Paris, where she lost to China\u2019s Chang Yuan, who would go on to win gold.<\/p>\n

Despite defeat, the Ashbourne boxer feels she belongs among the best in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce it all worked out and I qualified. Even coming up against the Olympic champion in the first round, as unfortunate as it was, kind of proved to myself that I did belong in the ring with the best of the best.<\/p>\n

“Although I was beaten, it wasn’t a standout kind of loss. It was kind of a way in my mind to show myself that I’m among the best of the world. Even seeing Kellie Harrington going on to win the gold: bigger dreams are set in my mind now.”<\/p>\n

Following another Olympics which boxing was brought into controversy, there was doubts if the sport would still be part of the Olympics.<\/p>\n

After World Boxing was recognised by the International Olympic Committee, boxing was back on the roster for LA 2028.<\/p>\n

In the short term, Lehane is among the 17 Irish boxers competing in the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Now there is clarity over the sport’s future, she can allow herself to dream about three years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first fight is next Thursday and hopefully going forward from that we will get onto a medal stage.<\/p>\n

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“Right now, I am focused on that next chapter, which is LA 2028.<\/p>\n

“I suppose all I can do what is focus on what I can do in the ring. Just focus on my own tactics that my coaches and I have gone through the night before.<\/p>\n

“All you can do is your best. If you let your mind wonder off to external things that you can’t control, your mind can go in a spiral.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully going forward, the improvements can be made, and the sport can be fair for all involved.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having only started boxing in her 20s, Jenny Lehane’s journey in the sport has seen her grow from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-111162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}