Alice Pumphrey
Alice Pumphrey is an English amateur boxer. She won the gold medal in the 51 kg category at the 2024 [World Boxing U19 Championships|2024 World Boxing Under-19 Championships]. Pumphrey is also the first English female boxer to win gold at the European Schools, Junior and Youth Championships.
Career
A talented footballer, Pumphrey signed an academy contract with Manchester United at the age of 11, before switching to boxing.She won the gold medal in the 48 kg division at the 2019 European Schools Boxing Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, and repeated the feat at the 2022 European Junior Boxing Championships in Montesilvano, Italy, this time in the 50 kg category.
Pumphrey completed a hat-trick of continental titles by winning the 50 kg gold at the 2024 European Youth Championships in Poreč, Croatia. In doing so she became the first English female boxer to win gold at the European Schools, Junior and Youth Championships.
Moving onto the global stage, she won the 51 kg division gold medal at the inaugural World Boxing Under-19 Championships held in Pueblo, Colorado, USA, in November 2024.
Pumphrey made her senior international debut at the Boxam tournament in La Nucia, Spain, in February 2025, defeating the home nation's Laura Barcelo in the light-flyweight semi-finals and then Ukraine's Yaroslava Marynchuk in the final to take the title.
She was selected to represent England in the 48 kg category at the World Boxing Championships – [Women's">2025 World Boxing Championships – Women's 48 kg">World Boxing Championships – [Women's 48 kg|World Boxing Championships] in Liverpool in September 2025. In her opening bout, Pumphrey beat Bulgarian boxer Sevda Asenova via unanimous decision. She then lost by unanimous decision to India's Meenakshi Hooda in the quarter-finals.