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Claressa Maria Shields [1] (born March 17, 1995) is an American professional boxer and professional mixed martial artist.She has held multiple world championships in five weight classes, including the undisputed female light middleweight title in March 2021; the undisputed female middleweight title twice between 2019 and 2024, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) female light heavyweight title ...
At the tournament, she became the first Algerian female boxer to reach the final after defeating Chelsey Heijnen. [28] She was then defeated by Amy Broadhurst in the final and finished runner-up. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Later that year, Khelif saw further success, winning gold medals at the Mediterranean Games and the African Amateur Boxing Championships .
Amanda Serrano (born October 9, 1988) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer and mixed martial artist. [2] As a boxer, she is the unified featherweight world champion, having held the WBO title since 2019, IBO title since 2021 and the WBA title since 2023. She held the IBF title between 2022 and 2024.
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has landed in the middle of a divide about gender in sports after her Italian competitor, Angela Carini, pulled out seconds into their bout at the Paris Olympics.
Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif will fight for gold in women's Olympic boxing Friday. But the 25-year-old boxer's time in Paris has become the latest focus of a global debate about gender and ...
The second of the two female boxers whose gender identities have recently been scrutinized won her first fight at the Paris Olympics on Friday. ... the latter referring to those born with sex ...
On 9 August 2024, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif defeated Yang Liu of China in the final to win an Olympic gold medal. [37] [38] Khelif therefore became Algeria's first female gold medalist in boxing, as well as the country's first boxer of any gender to win a medal since Mohamed Allalou in 2000 [39] and the first to win a gold medal since Hocine Soltani in 1996.
Lin Yu-ting and fellow female boxer Imane Khelif continue to face false accusations, which stemmed from a Russian-led sporting body, about their gender.