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23-year-old amateur died three days after receiving a knockout punch 90 seconds into a championship boxing match in Jijoca de Jericoacoara, Brazil. [108] [109] 17 Dec 2023 Timofey Shadrin Unknown: 14-year-old boxer died after a series of punches to body at the final of Pervouralsk youth championship. [110] 26 Dec 2023 Kazuki Anaguchi: Seiya ...
Shields was the youngest boxer at the February 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, winning the event in the 165 lb (75 kg) middleweight division. [9] [10] [11] In May, she qualified for the 2012 Games, the first year in which women's boxing was an Olympic event, [12] and went on to become the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. [13]
In July 2011, the BBC included Adams in a feature on "6 Promising Britons to watch in the Olympics". [14] In the 2012 Summer Olympics, Adams defeated Mary Kom from India in the Flyweight semi-final. [15] [16] She went on to defeat Chinese boxer and world number one Ren Cancan in the final to claim the first Olympic women's boxing gold medal. [17]
A British boxer died Sunday night after suffering a blow to the head during his professional debut.. Sherif Lawal was in the fourth of a six-round fight at Harrow Leisure Centre in London when his ...
The following is a list of WBA female world champions certificated by the World Boxing Association (WBA). Stand: March 31, 2020. r – Champion relinquished title. s – Champion stripped of title. During the 2009 WBA convention in Colombia, Susi Kentikian was named the first ever WBA female Super Champion. It was announced that this belt would ...
Francisco “Morochito” Rodríguez, the boxer who won Venezuela's first Olympic gold medal, died Tuesday at age 78. Venezuela's Olympic Committee confirmed Rodriguez' death on Wednesday on its ...
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.
The team manager of the top-seeded men's heavyweight boxer at the Paris Olympics died at the athletes village in Saint-Denis. Lionel Fatu Elika died on Friday morning local time at the village ...