Ariane Fortin

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Ariane Fortin
Ariane Fortin Rio2016.jpg
Fortin at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
NationalityFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
BornNovember 20, 1984 (1984-11-20) (age 39)
Quebec, Canada
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport Boxing
Weight class Middleweight
ClubUnderdog Boxing Club [1]
Coached byDaniel Trepanier (national)
Mike Moffa (personal) [1]
Medal record
Women's amateur boxing
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 New Delhi Light middleweight
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2008 Ningbo Light middleweight
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Podolsk Light middleweight
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Jeju Middleweight
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Glasgow Middleweight
Pan American Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Toronto Light heavyweight

Ariane Fortin (born November 20, 1984) is a Canadian southpaw amateur boxer. [2] She is a two-time World Boxing Champion. She also won a silver medal in the middleweight category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games [3] and a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada. [4]

In order to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as well as the World Championship in 2014, Ariane ran a successful crowdfunding campaign on MAKEACHAMP. [5]

Fortin took up boxing in 2004. In 2005, at 21 years old, she took part in the 2005 World Championships and won the silver medal. A year later, she won the gold medal at the 2006 World Championships in New Delhi, and repeated the same performance at the 2008 World Championships in Ningbo, China.

After failing to qualify to the 2012 Summer Olympics decided to move to another country with less rivalry in boxing. She chose Lebanon and started learning Arabic, but reconsidered after intervention from the International Amateur Boxing Association. Her attempts to qualify for the 2012 Olympics were presented in the 2013 Canadian documentary Last Women Standing. [1] [6]

In 2014, she competed in the World Championships in South Korea and took the bronze medal, suffering her only loss in the semifinal against American and already Olympic champion Claressa Shields.

In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team. [7] At the Olympics she was eliminated in the first bout in a controversial split decision. [8]

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