{"id":782820,"date":"2026-09-26T03:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782820\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:26:11","slug":"orourke-bbc-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782820\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Rourke – BBC Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aoife O’Rourke has won gold for Ireland at the European Elite boxing championships after an unanimous decision victory over Turkey’s Busra Isildar.<\/p>\n

The Roscommon middleweight was a 30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 30-26, 29-28 victor in the 75kg division in Sofia on Friday.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what to think right now, I’m am so, so happy – I’m overwhelmed with joy, so delighted,” the 29-year-old told RTE Sport.<\/p>\n

O’Rourke, who was defending the title, also overcame Isildar 5-0 to become world champion last year. <\/p>\n

It’s a fifth European gold for O’Rourke and completes a family double in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Her sister Lisa clinched gold a day earlier thanks to victory in the 80kg division<\/a> final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoife O’Rourke has won gold for Ireland at the European Elite boxing championships after an unanimous decision victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}