More success for Offaly kickboxing club at world championships

BIRR K-1 Kickboxing and Self Defence Club fighters shone at the 2026 WKO World Kickboxing Championships recently.

Birr topped the table with the most gold medals won in the Ring sports competition by an Irish club again and finished 7th in the world.

The Birr club have produced spectacular performances and topped the medals table three years in a row from 2024, 2025,& 2026.

Head coach Raphael Creamer is very proud of the club's performances over the last number of years and wants to make it four in a row next year.

What an incredible World Championships it has been for the five fighters representing Birr K1 Kickboxing & Self-Defence Club and Ireland on the biggest WKO stage!

The Birr K1 team produced some outstanding performances against top-class opponents from England, Scotland, Belgium, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Senegal and Northern Ireland.

Across several demanding divisions, their five fighters brought home an unbelievable total of: 9 World Championship gold medals, 6 World Championship silver medals, 1 World Championship bronze medal.

That is an incredible 16 World Championship medals for Birr K1!

The Birr K-1 final medal results showed Filipe Nunes won gold in K1, Low Kick and Sport Boxing Light.

Alan Ginson won gold in Light Contact, silver in Light Contact, Full Contact and Sport Boxing Light and bronze in K1.

Conor Hynes won gold in Light Contact and Full Contact.

Scott Carey won gold in Full Contact and silver in K1.

Jack Kirwan won gold in K1 and K1 and silver in Sport Boxing and low kick.

Every one of these fighters represented Ireland, Birr and Birr K1 Kickboxing & Self-Defence Club with pride, courage, skill and professionalism.

Months of hard training, sacrifices and dedication went into reaching this stage. To return home with 16 World Championship medals is an achievement that the fighters, coaches, families, sponsors and the entire community can be extremely proud of.

A massive congratulations to Filipe Nunes, Alan Ginson, Conor Hynes, Scott Carey and Jack Kirwan.

A huge thanks for all the generous donations from the fighters' family members and friends. To all the people from the town of Birr and the surrounding the towns and villages and online donations all this massively helped.

The fighters also getting sponsorship cards filled up.

A huge thank you must go to the local businesses, Vinny Hynes School of Motoring and Liffey Mills for the generous donations.

These donations helped massively ease the financial burden on our fighters, as kickboxing and the club doesn't receive any government funding for the World Kickboxing Championships.

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