Shelley Watts
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Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||
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10 August 1987 (age 29) Port Macquarie, Australia | ||||||||||||
Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) lightweight division | ||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||
Rated at | Lightweight | ||||||||||||
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Shelley Watts (born 10 August 1987 in Port Macquarie) is an amateur boxer from Australia.[1] Watts competed in the women's lightweight division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won the gold medal.[1][2] She was also a competitor in the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships. Shelley qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, to be held in Rio de Janeiro August 5-21 on March 31st 2016 by making the final of the 2016 Asian and Oceanian Olympic qualifying event only to be eliminated in her first fight by Italian teenager Irma Testa.
References
- 1 2 "Shelley Watts". Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games: Shelley Watts Australia's first women's boxing champion". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 August 2014.
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