Angélique Duchemin

Angélique Duchemin (26 June 1991 – 29 August 2017) was a French professional boxer known as "La princesse des rings.".[1] She won all 14 of her professional fights, including three by knockout, and was World Boxing Federation featherweight champion.[1][2]

Angélique Duchemin
Duchemin during a boxing bout
Statistics
Nickname(s)La princesse des rings
Weight(s)
NationalityFrench
Born(1991-06-26)26 June 1991
Thuir, France
Died29 August 2017(2017-08-29) (aged 26)
Perpignan, France
Boxing record
Wins14
Wins by KO3
Losses0

Career

Duchemin's father and brothers were boxers. She started training at the Perpignan boxing club at the age of 7.[3] In 2012 she signed a professional contract with the Perpignan boxing club. She undertook her first professional fight in December 2012, beating Cindy Bonhiver on points.[3] In 2013 she won matches against Lourdes Nunez, Cynthia Godbillon and Claudia Ferenczi before claiming the vacant French national super-featherweight title with a unanimous decision against Godbillon. After successfully defending her French title twice in 2015, she won the European super-featherweight title in December of that year by defeating Maria Semertzoglou. In February 2017 she beat Taoussy L'Hadji to retain the title. The wins over Semertzoglou and L'Hadji were both by unanimous decision.[1][2] A month after the L'Hadji fight, she defeated Ericka Rousseau by unanimous decision to win the vacant World Boxing Federation featherweight title[1] in front of an audience of over 1,000. Rousseau announced her retirement after the match.[4]

Duchemin became ill at her boxing club in Thuir on the evening of 28 August 2017, and was treated by cardiac massage before being taken to hospital in Perpignan. She died, seemingly of a pulmonary embolism on the morning of 29 August 2017.[5][6] An autopsy determined that the cause of death was an edema in the brain resulting from a heart problem, and also that there was no evidence of either doping or brain damage.[7] She founded the Boxing Club of Thuir.[3] At the time of her death Duchemin was an undefeated French, European and world champion.[2]

References
  1. "Angelique Duchemin". boxrec.com. BoxRec. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  2. "Angelique Duchemin: 1991 – 2017". worldboxingfederation.net. World Boxing Federation. 30 August 2017. Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  3. "Boxe. Qui était Angélique Duchemin, la jeune championne décédée ?" [Boxing. Who was Angélique Duchemin, the young dead champion?]. Ouest-France (in French). Rennes. 30 August 2017. Archived from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  4. Gibert, Francois (13 May 2017). "Boxe : la royannaise Erika Rousseau ne sera pas championne du monde" [Boxing: Royannaise Erika Rousseau will not be world champion]. france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr (in French). France Télévisions. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  5. "French world boxing champion Angélique Duchemin dies aged 26". Radio France Internationale. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  6. "Boxe. La championne du monde Angélique Duchemin est décédée à 26 ans" [Boxing. World champion Angélique Duchemin died at 26]. Ouest-France (in French). Rennes. 30 August 2017. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  7. Dubuis, Eric (15 October 2017). "Autopsie d'Angélique Duchemin: aucun produit dopant, aucune lésion cérébrale révélés" [Angelique Duchemin's autopsy: no doping product, no brain damage revealed]. L'independant (in French). Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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