Chantelle Reid (born 31 May 1998) is an English

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. She represented Great Britain at the

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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. Upon returning to the ring she claimed an

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title in 2023 and was subsequently awarded a place on the GB Boxing podium squad. In March 2024, Reid secured a quota spot for the

in Paris when she defeated Uzbekistan's Aziza Zokirova by unanimous decision in the quarter-finals at the World Qualification Tournament 1 in

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, Italy. On 7 June 2024, Reid was officially announced among the Great Britain squad for the Olympics. She was drawn to fight 2023 IBA World champion Khadija Mardi from Morocco in the first round and lost on a 3:2 split decision.

References

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