Sarah Ourahmoune

Sarah Ourahmoune

Ourahmoune in 2011
Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(1982-01-21) 21 January 1982 (age 42) Sèvres
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight	51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Country	France
Sport	Boxing
Event	Flyweight
Medal record Women's amateur boxing Representing  France Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Flyweight World Championships 2008 Ningbo Light flyweight 2016 Astana Flyweight European Championships 2011 Rotterdam Flyweight 2007 Vejle Light flyweight European Union Championships 2007 Lille Light flyweight 2008 Liverpool Light flyweight 2009 Pazardzhik Light flyweight

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 to found a gym in Paris.

Life

Ourahmoune was born in 1982 in Sèvres. She is of Algerian descent^[2] and she has relations in Algeria. She would visit there each year with her family. She became a boxer in France when she mistakenly asked if that club organised many sports. They only did one, so she tried it and she enjoyed her first experience. France had outlawed women from boxing but they relaxed the rules in 1999. She had already been training and she fought in some of the first legal fights.^[3]

She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the women's flyweight.^[4] She was beaten by the British Boxer Nicola Adams who was the first ever female Olympic champion at the previous Olympics in 2012.^[5] The fight was won on points with Ourahmoune being chosen in only one round. Ourahmoune had announced her retirement before the match.^[6]

She continued in boxing as an entrepreneur she opened up her own gym in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The gym was called Boxing inside.^[3]

In 2024 she stood in a joint bid with the previous President of the French Boxing Federation, Dominique Nato, to be the President. She wasn't the only female candidate as Estelle Mossely the 2016 Olympic lightweight champion was also standing. However in the November she withdrew a month before the election. She cited the racist and sexist abuse she had received as the reason.^[7]

References

1. "Sarah Ourahmoune". Sarah Ourahmoune in Espritbleu. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
2. Meet two of the expatriate athletes participating in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games!
3. Tramuta, Lindsey (7 July 2020). The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris. Abrams. ISBN 978-1-68335-878-7.
4. "Sarah Ourahmoune". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
5. Bellamy, Alison (6 November 2019). "Nicola Adams tohang up gloves..." Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
6. Nicola Adams beats Sarah Ourahmoune to retain Olympic flyweight title, 20 August 2016, The Guardian, Retrieved 1 September 2016
7. AP (12 November 2024). "Olympic medalist Ourahmoune withdraws from French boxing elections citing racist and sexist attacks". Sportstar. Retrieved 24 November 2024.

External links

• Sarah Ourahmoune at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)
• Sarah Ourahmoune at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Sarah Ourahmoune at BoxRec (registration required)
• Sarah Ourahmoune at Olympics.com
• Sarah Ourahmoune at Olympedia
• Sarah Ourahmoune at the French Olympic and Sports Committee (archived) (in French)
• Sarah Ourahmoune at Team France (in French)