Adriana Araújo (boxer)

Adriana Araújo (female boxer) medal table
Boxing
Brazil
Olympic games
bronze	2012 London	lightweight
South American Games
gold	2010 Medellin	lightweight
South American Games
gold	2005 Buenos Aires	lightweight
gold	2007 Duran	lightweight
gold	2008 Port of Spain	lightweight
gold	2009 Guayaquil	lightweight
gold	2010 Brasilia	lightweight
gold	2012 Cornwall	lightweight
silver	2014 Guadalajara	lightweight
bronze	2016 Santa Cruz de la Sierra	lightweight

Adriana Araújo (born November 4, 1981 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian boxer .

Career

Araújo won the Pan American Championships six times between 2005 and 2012.

In 2008 she took part in the World Championships for the first time, but retired in the lightweight (up to 60 kg) starting in the first fight. Something similar happened at the 2010 World Championships when she lost to Katie Taylor , Ireland (20: 5) in the round of 16 . In the same year she was able to win the South American Games in Medellín .

The Pan American Games in 2011 ended in the quarter-finals for Araújo. At the World Championships the following year she reached the quarter-finals after victories over Mira Potkonen, Finland (25:16), and Yong-Sim Ryu, North Korea (17:14), which she then beat against Sofja Otschigawa , Russia (15: 6) , lost. By reaching the quarter-finals, she qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games , in which women in boxing could also take part for the first time. Here Araújo won a bronze medal after victories over Saida Khasenova, Kazakhstan (16:14), and Mahjouba Oubtile, Morocco (16:12). She was eliminated in the semifinals again against Otschigawa, Russia (17:11).

At the 2014 World Championships in Jeju-si , Araújo had to admit defeat to Otschigawa in the round of 16. In 2015, she surprisingly missed the qualification for the Pan American Games and the 2016 World Championships again ended early for her with a second round defeat against Anastasia Belyakova , Russia (3; 0). Despite these failures, Araújo was nominated by the Brazilian Federation to host the Olympic Games .

Web links

• Adriana Araújo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/