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Imane Khelif won the Olympic gold medal in the women’s boxing 66-kilogram (145-pound) division on Friday, beating China’s Yang Liu. The feat culminated with her atop her coach’s shoulders ...
Imane Khelif will box for Olympic gold tonight, facing Yang Liu in the welterweight final at Paris 2024.. Khelif’s Olympic campaign has proven highly controversial, with the Algerian having ...
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won a gold medal at Paris Olympics after facing scrutiny over misconceptions about her sex. Khelif beat Yang Liu of China in a unanimous decision (5:0) from all five ...
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.
Marlen Esparza (born July 29, 1989) is an American professional boxer who is the former WBC, WBO, WBA and Ring female world flyweight champion. As an amateur, in 2012 she became the first American female boxer to qualify for the Olympics, in the first year that women's boxing was an Olympic event, going on to win a bronze medal in the women's flyweight division at the London Olympics.
Boxers who have won 3 or more Olympic medals. Western athletes usually participate in a single Olympic tournament and then turn pro, while boxers from Cuba and other countries with state support of the sport might compete in several Olympics, therefore having a clear advantage in terms of age and experience.
Lin Yu-ting fought to remain poised and calm throughout the Paris Olympics boxing tournament, even when it seemed like most of the chattering world was maligning her, misrepresenting her and ...
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter only 1 qualified boxer in the weight class. There were 17 quota places available for the women's middleweight, allocated as follows: [2] 2 places at the 2020 African Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament. 4 places at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament.