Maïva Hamadouche
Malva Hamadouche, 2021
Born (1989-11-04) 4 November 1989
Albi, France
NationalityFrench
Other namesEl Veneno (The Poison)
Statistics
Weight class
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Reach1.63 m (64 in)
Boxing record
Total fights24
Wins22
Wins by KO18
Losses2
Medal record
Women's amateur boxing
Representing  France
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2019 AlcobendasLightweight

Maïva Hamadouche (born 4 November 1989) is a French professional boxer and police officer who held the IBF female super-featherweight title from 2016 to November 2021. At regional level, she held the French female lightweight title in 2014 and the European female lightweight title in 2015.[1] As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world's best active female junior-lightweight by The Ring[2] and second BoxRec.[3]

Life and career

Hamadouche was born in Albi, in the Tarn department. She was raised by a single mother in a family of 6 children.[4] With a baccalauréat economique et social she first planned to study law but abandoned this idea because of family and economic difficulties.[4] Also interested in the army and more precisely in demining, she was received in the contest of the National Active Non-Commissioned Officers School of Saint-Maixent.[4] Not wishing to leave France to continue to devote herself to boxing, she finally decided, at age 19, to make a career in the police.[4] So, in 2009, she joined the Rouen police academy.[5]

She worked for two years in Asnières-sur-Seine then joined in 2014 the Compagnie de sécurisation et d'intervention of Paris.[5] In March 2018 she received the bronze honour medal for courage and devotion from the city of Paris for having rescued in June 2017 a young Mauritanian migrant, injured by a driver, by applying a tourniquet on his leg.[6]

Sports career

After practicing football, she started to train savate at the age of 14, and also practiced boxing afterwards.[4][5] She became a professional in 2013.[4] She trained in Saint-Juéry at the beginning,[7][8] then in Clichy after moving to Paris, having Sot Mezaache as her coach.[4]

She is seven-time vice-champion of France in savate and English boxing, eventually opting for the second discipline despite her debut in French boxing.[5]

In March 2015, in Milan, she became European lightweight champion, while the title was vacant, beating t Italy's Anita Torti by throw of the towel in the 5th round[9] then she retained his title in May in Clichy, winning on points in ten rounds against the same competitor.[10]

In November 2016, Maïva Hamadouche won her first IBF World Super featherweight title,[11] still vacant, winning by points in 10 rounds in Paris against the American Jennifer Salinas.[8] She became the third Frenchwoman to win that title after Myriam Lamare and Anne-Sophie Mathis.[11] She retained the title in January 2017 against Milena Koleva, from Bulgaria,[11] in May 2017 against Anahí Ester Sánchez, from Argentina,[11] then in 2018 against the French Myriam Dellal.[12] In 4 December 2018, Maïva Hamadouche kept her IBF world champion title, for the fifth time, against Brazil's Viviane Obenauf.[13]

She has the nickname "El veneno" ("the poison" in Spanish).[11] In 2016, her promoter was Malamine Koné.[8] Since September 2018 her promoter is Brahim Asloum[14]

References

  1. ↑ "BoxRec: Maiva Hamadouche". boxrec.com. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  2. ↑ "The Ring Women's Ratings". The Ring. 8 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "BoxRec: Ratings". boxrec.com. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mathieu Blard, « Maiva Hamadouche, policière et boxeuse », sur bondyblog.fr, .
  5. 1 2 3 4 Marie Slavicek, « Boxe : Maïva Hamadouche, policière à Paris, « poison » sur le ring », sur lemonde.fr, .
  6. ↑ Martine Lecaudey (19 January 2018). "Maïva Hamadouche : "Sauver une vie, ça marque"". ladepeche.fr..
  7. ↑ A. L., « La championne du monde de boxe Maiva Hamadouche sur les traces de son enfance à Saint-Juéry (Tarn) », sur france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, .
  8. 1 2 3 Michel Frejabise, « Maïva Hamadouche, championne du monde IBF », sur ladepeche.fr, .
  9. ↑ "Maiva Hamadouche championne d'Europe". ffboxe.com. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019..
  10. ↑ A.-A. F. (22 May 2015). "Maïva Hamadouche conserve aux points son titre européen des légers". lequipe.fr..
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Marie Slavicek, « Maïva Hamadouche : « Je veux marquer l’histoire de la boxe » », sur lemonde.fr, .
  12. ↑ "Maïva Hamadouche conserve son titre mondial". ladepeche.fr. 22 January 2018..
  13. ↑ "Maïva Hamadouche en mode repos". ladepeche.fr. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019..
  14. ↑ "Boxe : " Avec Brahim Asloum, je prends un nouveau départ ", confie Maïva Hamadouche". le site internet du journal Le Parisien. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019..
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