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Viviane Obenauf (born October 25, 1986 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) is a Brazilian- Swiss professional boxer .

Life

Above grew up in Sao Geraldo and Juiz de Fora (Brazil) as Viviane de Jesus Costa. She played football early on. She wanted to escape the strict parental home twice, which she did not succeed. De Jesus Costa managed, however, that she was declared of age early and could move out of home. She initially earned her living as a hotel employee. She moved to Europe in 2008 and a year later married the Austrian Christian Obenauf, whom she had met in Switzerland. Two years later she had a son. After this pregnancy, she lost her excess weight with boxing training. Together with her husband, she moved to Styria . After separating from her husband, she returned to Switzerland with her child in 2013, where she took the specialist restaurant exam in Basel . She worked in gastronomy until 2018. She managed to open and run her own boxing gym in Interlaken . She now lives in Oberried on Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland . She has not broken off her relations with her home country Brazil. She supports the Esporte e Vida project for poor children in the small Brazilian town of Sao Geraldo, where she grew up.

Boxing career

Obenauf took part in several amateur fights in Switzerland. In 2012 she became the Swiss lightweight champion . In 2013 she fought in the Austrian squad. At the beginning of 2014 she switched to the professional boxing team in Thun (Canton Bern). Since 2014 she has completed several fights as a professional boxer in the lightweight and super featherweight classes . A list of the previous fights can be found on Women Boxing Records . The WBA ranking list of women's super featherweight boxing can be viewed.

Fight with press comments

  • Obenauf won against Karina Kopinska from Poland on October 1, 2016 in Bern.
  • On top of that lost to world champion Katie Taylor in Manchester on December 10, 2016.
  • On top of that, Chantelle Cameron from Northampton fought in Leicester (England) on December 12, 2017 for the IBO lightweight world title and lost.
  • Victory in Cardiff (Wales) on August 4, 2018 against Natasha Jonas (6 fights, 5 knockout wins) in the fourth round. With that, Obenauf won the WBA super featherweight title .
  • On December 4, 2018, Obenauf competed against the previously undefeated world champion Maiva Hamadouche in an IBF title fight in Paris and had to give up after breaking two fingers.
  • After her injury in Paris, Obenauf organized a boxing meeting between Switzerland and Poland in Interlaken on April 27, 2019 . Your return to the professional boxing event succeeded.

Media attention

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christian Bürge: Viviane Obenauf - For us, discipline was paramount. Schweizer Illustrierte, April 7, 2019, accessed on August 7, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Calvin Stettler: Don't mess with Viviane. Tages-Anzeiger , September 23, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018
  3. ↑ The other side of Viviane Obenauf. Jungfrau Zeitung, August 11, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2018
  4. ↑ Boxing Results for Viviane Obenauf. womenboxingrecords.com, accessed December 2, 2018.
  5. ^ Runner-up WBA Super Featherweight. World Boxing Association, accessed December 2, 2018
  6. ↑ Ane Hebeisen: Bloodshed in the City Theater. Der Bund, October 2, 2016, accessed on December 2, 2018
  7. ↑ a b Patrick Mäder: Obenauf fights against boxing sensation. Blick , December 2, 2017, accessed December 2, 2018
  8. ↑ "The Golden Girl" causes a surprise in Wales. swissboxing, August 4, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2018
  9. ↑ Patrick Mäder: Swiss boxer beats up "Miss GB". Der Blick, August 6, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2018
  10. ↑ Patrick Mäder: lost fight, two fingers broken, boxing ban for brave Obenauf. Blick, December 5, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018
  11. ^ Ueli E. Adam: Professional meeting in Interlaken. swissboxing, April 28, 2019, accessed on May 11, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Up on top, Viviane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian-Swiss boxer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil