Nouchka Fontijn

Nouchka Fontijn
Nouchka Fontijn (center) won gold at the 2015 European Games
Statistics
Rated at	Middleweight
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Born	(1987-11-09) 9 November 1987 (age 29) Rotterdam, Netherlands
Website	www.nouchkafontijn.nl
Medal record Women's boxing Representing the Netherlands Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Middleweight World Championships 2016 Astana Middleweight 2014 Jeju City Middleweight European Games 2015 Baku 75 kg European Championships 2014 Bucharest Middleweight 2011 Rotterdam Middleweight European Union Championships 2013 Keszthely 75 kg 2011 Katowice 75 kg

Nouchka Fontijn (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈnuʃkaː fɔnˈtɛin]; born 9 November 1987) is a Dutch amateur boxer. She is the current European champion in the women's middleweight or 75 kg class after winning gold at both the European Games in 2015 and the European Championships in 2014.

Nouchka Fontijn was born on 9 November 1987 in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She studied physiotherapy at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Fontijn started amateur boxing in 2007 and has been competing in the middleweight or 75 kg class.

She first became Dutch champion in 2009 and has prolonged her title every year since.

She won silver at the 2011 European Championships in Rotterdam, after losing in the final from Nadezhda Torlopova. She won gold at the 2014 European Championships in Bucharest. The next year, she also won gold at the 2015 European Games in Baku.

She won silver at the 2016 World Championships in Astana and again silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, both times after losing 3-0 from Claressa Shields in the final.