Sirine Charaabi

Sirine Charaabi
Born	(1999-05-07) 7 May 1999 (age 26) El Fahs, Tunisia
Nationality	Italy
Statistics
Weight(s)	Bantamweight Flyweight
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Medal record Women's amateur boxing Representing   Italy World Championships 2025 Liverpool 54 kg IBA World Championships 2023 New Delhi Flyweight

Sirine Charaabi (born 7 May 1999) is an Italian amateur boxer. She is a silver medalist at the IBA World Championships (2023) and a bronze medalist at the World Boxing Championships (2025).

Early life and career

Born in El Fahs, Tunisia, at the age of 18 months, Charaabi joined her father, who worked in the province of Caserta, in Italy. At the age of 5, following her cousin, she joined the Tifata boxing gym in San Prisco, directed by master Giuseppe Perugino. In 2012, she won her first national youth title, while in 2018 she won the silver medal in the final of the Italian Championships. ^[1]

Amateur career

After enrolling at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", she continued to practice boxing, but only at the national level, as she did not yet have Italian citizenship. She won the gold medal at the 2021 Italian Championships and shortly thereafter obtained Italian citizenship. ^[2] She was finally able to wear the blue jersey, immediately winning a bronze at the Oxam international tournament and gold at the European Under-22 Championships. ^[3]

At the 2022 Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria, Charaabi lost to Hatice Akbaş, the latter in whom went on to win the gold medal. ^[4] In 2023, she won the silver medal when she lost to Wu Yu in the flyweight category at the 2023 Women's World Championships in New Delhi. ^{[5] [6] [7]} At the 2023 European Games held at Nowy Targ Arena in Nowy Targ, Poland, she reached the quarter-finals in the women's bantamweight division, where she lost to Akbaş who went on to win a bronze medal. ^[8] At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she was defeated in the first round of 32 match. ^[9]

In September 2025, at the World Boxing Championships, Charaabi competed in the 54 kg category. She reached the semifinals where she lost to Yoseline Perez. ^{[10] [11]}

In popular culture

Charaabi's story inspired the novel Il ring, written by Chiara Lico and published in 2024 by Giunti. ^{[12] [13]}

References

1. Francesca Saturnino (2023-04-27). "La lunga attesa di Sirine, «non rinnego le origini»". Il Manifesto (in Italian).
2. Iacopo Taddia (11 July 2021). "La boxeur Sirine che sul ring ha avuto la cittadinanza" (in Italian). Africa. La rivista del continente nero.
3. Marco Falco (3 July 2021). "BOXE. San Prisco celebra e premia Sirine Charaabi, neo campionessa Europea Under22" (in Italian).
4. Boztepe, Muhammed (1 July 2022). "19. Akdeniz Oyunları'nda milli boksör Hatice Akbaş altın madalya kazandı". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 8 November 2023.
5. "2023 Results". IBA. Archived from the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
6. "Chinese boxers Wu Yu and Yang Chengyu claim world titles at IBA Women's Boxing World Championships 2023". Dimsum Daily. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
7. "China grabs two golds at Women's Boxing World Championships". Xinhua. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
8. "Arşivlenmiş kopya". 30 June 2023. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
9. Federico Rossini (27 July 2024). "Boxe: Sirine Charaabi subito eliminata alle Olimpiadi. Calo netto dopo il primo round" (in Italian).
10. "Bout Time Announced for Yoseline Perez's Semifinal Against Italy at 2025 World Boxing Championships". USA Boxing. September 12, 2025.
11. "Yoseline Perez Advances to the Finals at the World Boxing Championships". USA Boxing. September 13, 2025.
12. "Il ring" (in Italian).
13. "Sirine Charaabi, la sua vita in un romanzo: Il ring" (in Italian). 29 April 2024.

External links

• Boxing record for Sirine Charaabi from BoxRec (registration required)