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Algeria's Imane Khelif, right, defeated, Italy's Angela Carini in their women's 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris.
Crowds of women have shown up at Imane Khelif's fights during the Paris Olympics to rally around the Algerian boxer as she faced online abuse over misconceptions about her sex. Hours before Khelif ...
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won a gold medal Friday at the Paris Olympics, emerging a champion from a tumultuous run at the Games where she endured intense scrutiny in the ring and online ...
Algeria’s Imane Khelif won the gold medal in the 66kg women’s boxing finals, capping a whirlwind Olympics that found her in the middle of global controversy over her gender. She defeated China ...
She won the gold medal at the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships, [3] and the 2021 Moscow Military World Games in the up to 60 kg category. She represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics , [ 4 ] winning the silver medal in the women's lightweight event, the best performance by a Brazilian female boxer.
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 Council (WBC) and International Boxing Federation ...
Imane Khelif of Algeria won her opening Olympic boxing bout Thursday when opponent Angela Carini of Italy quit after just 46 seconds.
The participation of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting in the 2024 Summer Olympics in the female boxing event caused controversy as they had been disqualified from the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships run by the International Boxing Association (IBA). The disqualifications came as consequence of the IBA stating that they failed to meet ...