Chantelle Reid

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Chantelle Reid
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Chantelle Reid in 2024.
Born (1998-05-31) 31 May 1998 (age 26) [1]
Allenton, Derbyshire, England [2]
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Weight(s) Middleweight
Stance Orthodox

Chantelle Reid OLY (born 31 May 1998) is an English amateur boxer. She represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Career

Reid won a gold medal at the 2014 European Junior Boxing Championship and bronze a year later at the World Youth Championship before a back injury forced her to quit the sport for six years. [3] [4]

Upon returning to the ring she claimed an England Boxing National Amateur Championships title in 2023 and was subsequently awarded a place on the GB Boxing podium squad. [5]

In March 2024, Reid secured a quota spot for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris when she defeated Uzbekistan's Aziza Zokirova by unanimous decision in the quarter-finals at the World Qualification Tournament 1 in Busto Arsizio, Italy. [6] [7]

On 7 June 2024, Reid was officially announced among the Great Britain squad for the Olympics. [4] [8] [9] [10] She was drawn to fight 2023 IBA World champion Khadija Mardi from Morocco in the first round [11] [12] and lost on a 3:2 split decision. [13] [14]

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References

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