Sarah Ourahmoune (born 21 January 1982) is a French former female boxer. She won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016 before she retired from boxing.
Life
Ourahmoune was born in 1982 in
Sèvres
Sèvres (, ) is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France region. The commune, which had a population of 23,251 as of 2018, is known for i ...
. She is of
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She won a silver medal at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
in
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
, in the
women's flyweight. She was beaten by
Nicola Adams
Nicola Virginia Adams (born 26 October 1982) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2017 to 2019. She retired with an undefeated record and held the WBO female flyweight title in 2019. As an amateur, she became the first fe ...
who was the Olympic champion from the previous Olympics. The fight was won on points with Ourahmoune being chosen in only one round. Ourahmoune had announced her retirement before the match.
Nicola Adams beats Sarah Ourahmoune to retain Olympic flyweight title
20 August 2016, The Guardian, Retrieved 1 September 2016
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1982 births
Living people
French women boxers
Olympic boxers for France
Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for France
Olympic medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
People from Sèvres
French sportspeople of Algerian descent
Sportspeople from Hauts-de-Seine
Flyweight boxers
AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists
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