Ariane Fortin

Ariane Fortin

File:Ariane Fortin Rio2016.jpg Fortin at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Canada
Born	November 20, 1984 (1984-11-20) (age 41) Quebec, Canada
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Middleweight
Club	Underdog Boxing Club
Coached by	Daniel Trepanier (national) Mike Moffa (personal)
Medal record Women's amateur boxing Representing Canada World Championships Gold medal – first place 2006 New Delhi Light middleweight Gold medal – first place 2008 Ningbo Light middleweight Silver medal – second place 2005 Podolsk Light middleweight Bronze medal – third place 2014 Jeju Middleweight Commonwealth Games Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow Middleweight Pan American Games Bronze medal – third place 2015 Toronto Light heavyweight

Ariane Fortin (born November 20, 1984) is a Canadian southpaw amateur boxer. She is a two-time World Boxing Champion. She also won a silver medal in the middleweight category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.

In order to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as well as the World Championship in 2014, Ariane ran a successful crowdfunding campaign on MAKEACHAMP.

Fortin took up boxing in 2004. In 2005, at 21 years old, she took part in the 2005 World Championships and won the silver medal. A year later, she won the gold medal at the 2006 World Championships in New Delhi, and repeated the same performance at the 2008 World Championships in Ningbo, China.

After failing to qualify to the 2012 Summer Olympics decided to move to another country with less rivalry in boxing. She chose Lebanon and started learning Arabic, but reconsidered after intervention from the International Amateur Boxing Association. Her attempts to qualify for the 2012 Olympics were presented in the 2013 Canadian documentary Last Women Standing.

In 2014, she competed in the World Championships in South Korea and took the bronze medal, suffering her only loss in the semifinal against American and already Olympic champion Claressa Shields.

In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team. At the Olympics she was eliminated in the first bout in a controversial split decision.

External links

• Ariane Fortin at Olympics.com
• Ariane Fortin at Team Canada