Tammara Thibeault (born December 27, 1996) is a Canadian

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competing in the

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category. Thibeault won the 2022 World Championship in Istanbul after earlier winning the middleweight bronze in 2019. She is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion when she won gold in Birmingham in 2022, improving on her bronze medal at the

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. Thibeault is also the current

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champion when she won gold at the 2023 Pan Am Games, again improving on her bronze from the

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Career

At her first Senior event, Thibeault won the gold medal at the 2017 Pan American Championships which were held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. At the

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, Thibeault won the bronze medal in the middleweight event. At the

, Thibeault originally won the bronze medal in the

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event, but was later upgraded to silver after the gold medalist was stripped of her medal due to doping. Thibeault won a bronze medal at the

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. Thibeault qualified to represent Canada at the

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. Ultimately, Thibeault would lose in the quarterfinals of the middleweight event, one win away from a guaranteed medal. In April 2022, Thibeault won the gold medal at the 2022 Pan American Championships which were held in Guayquil, Ecuador, which represented her second gold medal win at the tournament. Thiebeault defeated Panama's Atheyna Bylon in a unanimous decision to win gold. The following month, at the

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, Thibeault would go on to win the gold medal in the middleweight event, by beating Panama's Atheyna Bylon again in a 4−1 decision.

Professional career

Thibeault signed with

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ahead of her professional boxing debut on Dec 13 2024 at Most Valuable Prospects 10, where she defeated Natasha Spence unanimous decision Thibeault is scheduled to face Sonya Dreiling in Etobicoke, ON, Canada on March 7, 2025.

Personal life

Thibeault started boxing at the age of 10 and has a bachelor's degrees in

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and two minors in Mandarin and Spanish. Thibeault plans to open an international corporation after her retirement from the sport of boxing.

Professional boxing record

References

1996 births Living people AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists Canadian women boxers People from Saint-Georges, Quebec Sportspeople from Chaudière-Appalaches Boxing people from Quebec Middleweight boxers Boxers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada Boxers at the 2019 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games silver medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Olympic boxers for Canada 21st-century Canadian sportswomen Boxers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Boxers at the 2023 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in boxing {{Canada-boxing-bio-stub