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 Sèvres (, ) is a French Communes of France, commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris. It is located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region. The commune, which had a populatio ...

. She is of

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

n descent 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. She won a silver medal at the

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, in the women's flyweight. She was beaten by the British Boxer

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who was the first ever female Olympic champion at the previous Olympics in 2012. The fight was won on points with Ourahmoune being chosen in only one round. Ourahmoune had announced her retirement before the match. She continued in boxing as an entrepreneur she opened up her own gym in the

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. The gym was called ''Boxing inside''. In 2024 she stood in a joint bid with the previous President of the

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, Dominique Nato, to be the President. She wasn't the only female candidate as

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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.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ourahmoune, Sarah 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 Sportspeople from Sèvres French sportspeople of Algerian descent Flyweight boxers AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists 21st-century French sportswomen