Myriam Lamare

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Lamare, Myriam boxer
Data
Birth Name Lamare, Myriam
Weight class Half-worlds
nationality French
birthday 1st January 1975
place of birth Saint Denis, France
style Standard boom
size 1.68 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 21st
Victories 18th
Knockout victories 10
Defeats 3
draw 0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Myriam Lamare (born January 1, 1975 in Saint-Denis ) is a French boxer . She was world and European champion among amateur boxers and world champion among professional boxers.

Career

Amateur area

Myriam Lamare is the daughter of Algerian immigrants to France. Growing up in Saint Denis, where she practiced athletics as a teenager , she later moved to Toulouse and began training there in 1996 at a boxing club. Her first coach was Louis Lavaly, who looked after her for many years. As a professional boxer, she settled in Marseille , where she still lives.

In 1999 she was the first French champion in light welterweight (then up to 63.5 kg body weight). She also won this title in 2000, 2001 and 2002. In April 2000 she took 3rd place in the light welterweight division at the 2nd Women's European Cup in Macon / France, a forerunner of the European Women's Championships. After a victory over Saida Gasanowa from Ukraine, she was defeated there in the semi-finals by the Swede Frida Wallberg just on points (3: 4). In May 2000 she won the light welterweight division by winning points over Tanja Robertsson from Canada in the final of the Feenix Cup in Turku / Finland .

At the 1st European Women's Boxing Championship in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, France, in April 2001, she succeeded in taking revenge against Frida Wallberg in the quarter-finals. She clearly defeated them with 10: 6 points. In the semifinals she was point winner over Julia Nemzowa from Russia and in the final she won over Nikoletta Kavka from Greece by breaking off in the 3rd round and thus became European champion. In October 2001 Myriam Lamare repeated her tournament victory at the Feenix Cup in Turku. She defeated the Finn Terha Lukka just on points (15:14). At the 1st world championship in women's boxing in Scranton / USA she defeated Natalia Ostroumowa from Israel in the light welterweight division by breaking off in the 1st round and was the point winner over Donna Mancuso from Canada (19:12). In the final, she faced her old rival Frida Wallberg and just lost this fight with 10:12 points. That made her runner-up world champion.

In 2002 Myriam Lamare was the tournament winner at the Witch Cup in Pécs / Hungary . There she defeated the Danish Vinnie Skovgaard in the final by breaking off in the first round. At the 2nd World Cup for women in Antalya / Turkey , she was in excellent form and won the final against Yasemir Ustalar from Turkey . The bronze medals went to Saida Gasanowa and Daniela David from Romania . Unfortunately, the individual results of this championship are not known.

In her last year in the amateur camp, 2003, she won tournaments in Caorle / Italy (Torneo Italia) and in Poitiers . In the final fights she defeated Manuela Marcenario from Italy by breaking off in the 2nd round and Virginia Chaillou from France by breaking off in the 1st round. Between these two tournaments she had become European light welterweight champion for the second time in May 2003 in Pécs / Hungary. She won ahead of Maria Karlova from Russia and Anastasia Savinova.

Myriam Lamare played a total of 45 fights in the amateur camp, of which she won 42.

Professional area

Even in the amateur camp, Myriam Lamare showed an extraordinary hardness for women. With this hardness of impact it was predestined for professional boxing. This was already shown by the first two fights as a professional boxer, which she contested on October 10, 2003 and November 14, 2003 in Marseille and Levallois-Perret . She won over Katalin Csehi from Hungary and Laura Stefanescu from Romania by technical knockout in the first round. After five more victories, she contested her first title fight on November 8, 2004 in the Palais Omnisport in Paris -Bercy / France. It was against Eliza Olson from the United States for the vacant WBA women's light welterweight title. In the 10-round battle, she was awarded every 10 rounds by all three referees (three times 100: 90). With this huge point win she became the first professional light welterweight world champion.

Myriam Lamare also won early in her first two title defenses. So she defeated Elena Twerdochleb from Ukraine on April 29, 2005 in the Palais des Sports in Marseille with technical knockout in the 10th round and on July 9, 2005 in Le Cannet / France Eva Weston from Trinidad & Tobago with technical knockout id 3 Round. The next title defense on December 5, 2005 in the Palais Omnisport in Paris-Bercy was also about the vacant WIBF Womens-International-Boxing-Federation light welterweight title. Myriam Lamare won this fight against the Englishwoman Jane Couch again by technical knockout in the 3rd round.

On March 18, 2006 and July 15, 2006 she fought twice against Belinda Laracuente from Puerto Rico for the BWA Female Light Welterweight title. These fights took place in the Palais des Sport Marcel Cerdan in Levallois-Perret and in La Palestre in Le Cannet. Both times she won after 10 rounds unanimously on points (99:92, 97:93, 99:91 and 97:93, 98:93 and 97:93). On December 2, 2006, Myriam Lamare then contested a title fight against her French compatriot Anne Sophie Mathis in the Palais Omnisports in Paris-Bercy . It was about her WBA women's light welterweight title and the EBU women's light welterweight title. She had to be beaten in the 7th round by technical knockout and lost her world title. On June 29, 2007, the rematch fight between Myriam Lamare and Anne Sophie Mathis took place in the Palais des Sports in Marseille, which was about the WBA female light welterweight title. Again, Myriam Lamare lost. Their point defeat was just 1: 2 judges votes (+95: 95, 93:96, 92:98).

After winning some development fights, she got the chance to fight the American Holly Holm for the WIBA Womens International Boxing Association welterweight title on January 23, 2009 in Albuquerque / New Mexico . She lost this fight over 10 rounds unanimously on points (92:98, 93:97 and 94:96). Due to her good performance, she was back in business and defeated Ann Saccurato from the United States on October 9, 2009 in the Salle Vallier in Marseille in the fight for the vacant WBF Female World-Boxing-Federation-Light-Light-Welterweight- Title clearly on points (99:92, 99:90 and 100: 90) and was again world champion of an association. That title defended on November 6, 2010 in Val de l'Arc, Aix-en-Provence against in Germany living Italian Lucia Morelli they. KO id sixth round defeated by Tech.

literature

  • Box Sport magazine

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personal data
SURNAME Lamare, Myriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french boxer
DATE OF BIRTH 1st January 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Denis , France