Tammara Thibeault

Tammara Thibeault (born December 27, 1996) is a Canadian boxer competing in the Middleweight category.^[1] Thibeault won the 2022 World Championship in Istanbul after earlier winning the middleweight bronze in 2019. She is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion when she won gold in Birmingham in 2022, improving on her bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Thibeault is also the current Pan American Games champion when she won gold at the 2023 Pan Am Games, again improving on her bronze from the 2019 Pan American Games.

Tammara Thibeault
Born	(1996-12-27) December 27, 1996 (age 27) Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada
Statistics
Weight class	Middleweight
Weight(s)	75 kg (165 lb)
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Stance	Southpaw
Medal record Women's amateur boxing Representing  Canada World Championships 2022 Istanbul Middleweight 2019 Ulan-Ude Middleweight Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham Middleweight 2018 Gold Coast Middleweight Pan American Games 2023 Santiago Middleweight 2019 Lima Middleweight Pan American Boxing Championships 2022 Guayaquil Middleweight 2017 Tegucigalpa Middleweight

Career

At her first Senior event, Thibeault won the gold medal at the 2017 Pan American Championships which were held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.^[2]

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, Thibeault won the bronze medal in the middleweight event.^[3]

At the 2019 Pan American Games, Thibeault originally won the bronze medal in the middleweight event, but was later upgraded to silver after the gold medalist was stripped of her medal due to doping.^[4]

Thibeault won a bronze medal at the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships.^[5][6]

Thibeault qualified to represent Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[7][8] Ultimately, Thibeault would lose in the quarterfinals of the middleweight event, one win away from a guaranteed medal.^[9][10]

In April 2022, Thibeault won the gold medal at the 2022 Pan American Championships which were held in Guayquil, Ecuador, which represented her second gold medal win at the tournament. Thiebeault defeated Panama's Atheyna Bylon in a unanimous decision to win gold.^[11] The following month, at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships, Thibeault would go on to win the gold medal in the middleweight event, by beating Panama's Atheyna Bylon again in a 4−1 decision.^[12][13][14]

Personal life

Thibeault started boxing at the age of 10 and has a bachelor's degrees in linguistics and two minors in Mandarin and Spanish.^[3] Thibeault plans to open an international corporation after her retirement from the sport of boxing.^[3]

References

1. "Tammara Thibeault". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
2. "Argentina on top as ten women champions crowned at AMBC Championships in Honduras". www.iba.sport. International Boxing Association (amateur). 17 June 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2022. The Canadian's feat was later matched by teammate Tamara Thibeault, the 20-year-old talent in the side for Ariane Fortin living up to her potential with a brilliant run to secure the Middleweight (75kg) title.
3. "Tammara Thibeault". www.boxingcanada.org. Boxing Canada. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
4. Strong, Gregory (11 November 2020). "Boxer Tammara Thibeault has Pan Am bronze upgraded to silver after gold medalist disqualified". Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Associated Press. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
5. "Tammara Thibeault wins bronze at AIBA women's world championships". Sportsnet. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Press. 12 October 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
6. Awad, Brandi (12 October 2019). "Boxing: Tammara Thibeault captures bronze medal at worlds". Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
7. Barnes, Dan (27 May 2021). "Qualifying for Tokyo Olympics an unprecedented challenge because of COVID-19". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
8. Awad, Brandi (7 July 2021). "Team Canada to have five boxers in the ring at Tokyo 2020". Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
9. "Canadian boxer Tammara Thibeault defeated in Tokyo Olympic quarterfinal". Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Press. 31 July 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
10. Ibrahim, Abdulhamid (31 July 2022). "Canada's Tammara Thibeault falls 1 win shy of medal in women's middleweight boxing". www.cbc.ca/. CBC Sports. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
11. "Argentina, USA, Colombia, Canada, Puerto Rico and Brazil shared 11 women's titles in Guayaquil". www.iba.sport. International Boxing Association (amateur). 1 April 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
12. "Canada's Thibeault claims gold, Cavanagh takes silver at world women's boxing champs". Toronto Star. Toronto, Ontario Canada. Canadian Press. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
13. Nichols, Paula (20 May 2022). "Thibeault wins gold, Cavanagh takes silver at women's boxing worlds". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
14. "Canada's Tammara Thibeault wins gold at boxing worlds". www.cbc.ca/. CBC Sports. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.