Mandy Marie Brigitte Bujold (born 25 July 1987) is a Canadian former

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. She won gold medals in the women's flyweight category at the

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and

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and won a bronze medal at the

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. She competed at the

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and competed at the delayed

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following an appeal to the

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Career

Bujold was coached by the late Adrian Teodorescu, who had previously coached

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. Bujold has won the Canadian National Championships on 11 occasions. In 2006, she won the Canadian Junior National Championships. Bujold made her first senior international appearance at the 2008 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships. She won a gold medal in the women's flyweight category at the

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. She was not selected for the

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. At the

, Bujold won a bronze medal, after losing to Briton

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in the semi-finals. In the same year, Bujold finished fourth at the

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. She won another gold medal at the

. She was critical of a proposal to remove head protection for amateur boxers, and at one point, she threatened to retire if the rule was enacted. In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team, after having won the Olympic qualifying event in

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in March 2016. She was one of three Canadian boxers at the Games and was considered Canada's best boxing medal prospect. During the Games, she was hospitalized for one night with

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. She lost of liquid from her body. She lost in the quarter-finals of the competition, having only left the hospital two hours before the fight commenced. Following the Games, she took some time away from boxing. She withdrew from selection for the

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after being told that she would need to live in

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; she had previously been selected in the squad. In December 2019, Bujold won the Canadian Olympic qualification tournament. She was scheduled to participate in the

qualification event in May 2021 before the event was cancelled due to the

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. As a result, the

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(IOC) chose to instead consider results from 2018 and 2019, which meant that Bujold was not considered, as she had been pregnant and on

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during that period. Bujold, supported by Canadian

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, the

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(COC), and Boxing Canada, appealed to the IOC to reconsider this decision but received no reply. Bujold appealed to the

(CAS); on 30 June 2021, CAS awarded her a place at the Games. The court ruled that the qualification system must accommodate pregnant or postpartum women during the qualification period. The COC released a statement supporting the CAS outcome. At the Games, Bujold lost her first-round match to Serbian

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. Bujold announced her retirement from boxing after the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

Bujold was born in

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, and now lives in

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. Aside from boxing, she has worked for Communitech. In November 2018, her daughter was born.

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