Nouchka Fontijn

Nouchka Fontijn medal table
Boxing
Netherlands
Olympic games
silver	2016 Rio	medium weight
World championships
bronze	2014 Jeju	medium weight
silver	2016 Astana	medium weight
European Games
gold	2015 Baku	medium weight
European championships
silver	2011 Rotterdam	medium weight
gold	2014 Bucharest	medium weight
EU championship
silver	2011 Katowice	medium weight
silver	2013 Keszthely	medium weight

Nouchka Fontijn (born November 9, 1987 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch boxer . She was European champion in 2014 and second in the middleweight division in 2016 .

Career

Nouchka Fontijn has been active in sports since early childhood. She did gymnastics, played country hockey, skied, was a track and field athlete and began Taekwondo at the age of 16, which she practiced until she was 20. In this sport she already had great successes and made it to the 1st Dan. In January 2007 she also started boxing, so only at the age of 20. Originally, she wanted to do boxing and taekwon-do side by side. However, she was quickly convinced by her trainer at the Rotterdam Abdel Fikri performance center that she must concentrate on boxing if she is to achieve outstanding success. Her athletic trainer is Hans Kroon and since she has also been training frequently at the Sportcentrum Papendal, she also often practices with Nigel Davies. Nouchka Fontijn lives in Schiedam. She studied physiotherapy at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, where she graduated in 2013.

She was Dutch middleweight champion in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

European Games 2015

She made her first start at an international championship in August 2010 at the 5th EU championship in Keszthely / Hungary. She met ex-world champion Mária Kovács from Hungary in the round of 16 , against whom she lost on points. One month later, in September 2010, she competed in the 6th AIBA Women's World Championship in Bridgtown / Barbados. She defeated there middleweight Yunebier Guillen, Dominican Republic and Tiffany Hearn , United States and met in the quarterfinals again on the experienced Maria Kovacs, against whom she lost again on points. It took a good 5th place.

In June 2011 Nouchka Fontijn won a medal at an international championship for the first time at the 6th EU championship in Katowice. She defeated it in the middleweight division Erika Guerrier from France and for the first time her old rival Maria Kovacs on points. In the final she lost to Lidia Fidura from Poland on points and won the silver medal. She won a silver medal in October 2010 at the European Women's Championship in her hometown of Rotterdam. On the way to this success she defeated Desislawa Lasarowa, Bulgaria, Maria Kovacs and Savannah Marshall from England. In the final, the relatively narrow defeat against Nadezhda Torlopa from Russia (11:13 points).

In January 2012, Nouchka Fontijn defeated her compatriot Marichelle de Jong in the final of the 1st Nations Women's Cup in Sombor / Serbia and thus won the right to start the 7th AIBA World Championship for women in Qinhuangdao / China in May of this year, which was important because there was an opportunity to qualify for participation in the Olympic boxing tournament in London. In Qinhuangdao she first defeated Hurrican Boyle from New Zealand on points, but lost in the round of 16 against Marina Wolnowa from Kazakhstan just on points (18:19), so she was eliminated and only came in 9th place. The Olympic Games in London in 2012 were thus a long way off. In 2013 there were no world and no European championships in women's boxing. In July 2013, however, there was the 7th EU Championship in Keszthely / Hungary, in which Nouchka Fontijn was also at the start. She won the middleweight division over Sinead Kavanagh, Ireland and over Nives Radic, Croatia, on points. In the final battle she lost to Savannah Marshall and therefore had to be content with a silver medal again.

At the 2014 European Championships in Bucharest, she finally managed to win the European Championship gold medal with victories over Anna Laurell from Sweden, Jaroslawa Jakuschina , Russia, Tímea Nagy from Hungary and Sarah Scheurich from Germany, all top-class female boxers . At the 2014 World Championships , Fontijn u. a. with a victory over Khadija Mardi , Morocco (3: 0), the semi-finals, which she lost against Li Qian , China (2: 0), and thus won a bronze medal. In 2015 Fontijn won with victories a. a. via Marshall (3: 0), Scheurich (3: 0) and Laurell (3: 0) the gold medal at the first ever European Games . It was all the more disappointing for Fontijn that she was eliminated from the European Olympic qualification tournament in 2016 in the first fight against Christine Desmond, Ireland (2-0). Fontijn then made up for the missed qualification for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro at the World Championships in the same year when she after victories a. a. via Lidija Fidura (3: 0) and Savannah Marshall (3: 0) reached the final, which she then lost to Claressa Shields , United States (3: 0), and thus won the silver medal.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Nouchka Fontijn defeated Savannah Marshall in the middleweight division, and Li Qian on points, making the defending champion Claressa Shields in the final. Claressa Shields retained the upper hand in this fight as well and won 3-0 judges' votes over Nouchka Fontijn, who deservedly won the silver medal.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2010	3.	Minoan Womens Cup in Heraklion / Greece	medium	after a point defeat in the semifinals against Ulrike Brückner, Germany
2010	9.	5th EU championships in Keszthely / Hungary	medium	after a point defeat in the round of 16 against Maria Kovacs, Hungary (1: 5)
2010	5.	World Cup in Bridgetown / Barbados	medium	after winning points over Yunebier Guillen, Dominican Republic and Tiffany Hearn, USA and losing points in the quarterfinals against Maria Kovacs (7:19)
2011	2.	6th EU Championships in Katowice	medium	after winning points over Erika Guerrier, France (15: 5) and Maria Kovacs (18: 7) and a point defeat in the final against Lidia Fidura, Poland (10:15)
2011	2.	Minoas Womens Cup in Heraklion	medium	after a point win over Marina Wolnowa , Kazakhstan (20:15) and a point defeat against Mary Spencer , Canada (16:23)
2011	2.	EM in Rotterdam	medium	after winning points over Desislawa Lasarowa, Bulgaria (16: 6), Maria Kovacs (15:11) and Savannah Marshall, England, (15: 7) and a point defeat in the final against Nadeschda Torlopowa, Russia (11:13)
2012	1.	1st Nations Womens Cup in Sombor / Serbia	medium	after winning points over Cheyenne Whaanga, New Zealand (9: 0), Tamara Garcia, Spain (9: 0) and Marichelle de Jong , Netherlands (10: 5)
2012	1.	63rd Strandja Memorial in Sofia	medium	after RSC victory in the 2nd round over Kim Shin-hyeong, South Korea, points victories over Anna Laurell, Sweden (19: 9) and Elif Guner, Turkey (11: 4) and a non-fighting victory over Li Jinzi , China
2012	9.	World Cup in Qinhuangdao / China	medium	after winning points over Hurrican Coyle, New Zealand (22:13) and losing points in the round of 16 against Marina Wolnowa (18:19)
2013	1.	2nd Nations Women's Cup in Zrenjanin	medium	after a demolition win in the 2nd round over Altyinai Balabekow, Kazakhstan and points win over Timea Nagy, Hungary (9: 4)
2013	1.	5th Girls Boxing Cup in Hamburg	medium	after winning points over Andrea Strohmaier, Germany (20: 2) and Leila Dschawadowa, Azerbaijan
2013	5.	30. Feliks Stamm Memorial in Warsaw	medium	after winning points over Wioleta Michalska, Poland (16: 5) and losing points to Marina Wolnowa (9:10)
2013	1.	9th Montana Belts Tournament in Argenteuil / France	medium	after winning points over Erika Guerrier, Lidia Fidura and Love Holgersson, Sweden
2013	2.	7th EU championships in Keszthely	medium	after winning points over Sinead Kavanagh, Ireland (3: 0 RS) and Nives Radic, Croatia (3: 0 RS) and a point defeat against Savannah Marshall (0: 3 RS)
2013	1.	Queens Cup in Stralsund	medium	after winning points over Kaye Scott, Australia (3: 0 RS) and Maxima Koelemnij, Netherlands (3: 0)
2014	1.	Womens Boxing Days in Hamburg	medium	after a tech knockout victory in the 3rd round over Olivia Endale Maky, Germany and a non-fighting victory over Sarah Scheurich, Germany
2014	1.	EM in Bucharest	medium	after winning points over Anna Laurell, Sweden (3: 0 RS), Jaroslawa Jakuschina, Russia (3: 0 RS), Timea Nagy (3: 0 RS) and Sarah Scheurich (3: 0 RS)
2015	2.	66th Strandja Memorial in Sofia	medium	after a Techn KO victory in the 4th round over Schachnosa Nisamowa, Uzbekistan, a point victory over Anna Laurell, Sweden (3: 0 RS) and a point defeat against Li Qian, China (0: 3 RS)
2015	1.	1. European Games in Baku	medium	after winning points over Savannah Marshall (3: 0 RS), Katerina Schambir, Ukraine (2: 0 RS), Sarah Scheurich (3: 0 RS) and Anna Laurell (3: 0 RS)
2016	2.	World Cup in Astana	medium	after winning points over Sema Caliskan, Turkey (3: 0 RS), Lidija Fidura (3: 0 RS), Erika Guerrier, France (3: 0 RS) and Savannah Marshall (3: 0 RS) and a point defeat against Claressa Shields, United States (0: 3 RS)
2016	silver	OS in Rio de Janeiro	medium	after winning points over Savannah Marshall (2: 0 RS) and Li Qian (2: 1 RS) and a point defeat against Claressa Shields (0: 3 RS)

Explanations

• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, EU = European Union
• Middle weight, weight class up to 75 kg body weight
• RS = judges' votes (Note: at the end of 2013 the "point machines" that were customary but controversial were abolished by the AIBA. Since then, three judges have been evaluating again without technical aids)

swell

• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"
• AIBA website

Web links

• Nouchka Fontijn's website