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Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||
Born |
10 August 1987 (age 29) Port Macquarie, Australia |
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Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) lightweight division | ||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||
Rated at | Lightweight | ||||||||||||
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Shelley Watts (born 10 August 1987 in Port Macquarie) is an amateur boxer from Australia. Watts competed in the women's lightweight division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won the gold medal. She was also a competitor in the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships. Shelley qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, to be held in Rio de Janeiro August 5–21 on March 31, 2016 by making the final of the 2016 Asian and Oceanian Olympic qualifying event only to be eliminated in her first fight by Italian teenager Irma Testa.
Watts said that she is a supporter of the Australian football team South Sydney Rabbitohs.