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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 Council (WBC) and International Boxing Federation ...
Khelif was selected as Algeria's flagbearer at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships. [27] 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.
Lin Yu-ting, one of two women boxers embroiled in a gender controversy at the Summer Olympics, won her quarterfinal bout in the 57kg division and is guaranteed a medal.
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 ...
Imane Khelif, boxer engulfed in Olympics gender controversy, declares 'I am a woman like any other woman' after winning gold Dan Wetzel August 9, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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.
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.
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 ...