Khadija El-Mardi
Moroccan boxer (born 1991)
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Khadija Mardi[1][2][3] (born 1 February 1991),[1][2] also known as Khadija El Mardi,[4] is a Moroccan boxer. She is the current Heavyweight women's IBA World Boxing Champion.
1 February 1991
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| Nationality | Moroccan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Khadija Mardi 1 February 1991 Casablanca, Morocco | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Career
Mardi competed in the women's middleweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2] She lost to Dariga Shakimova in the quarter-finals.[5]
She qualified to represent Morocco at the 2020 Summer Olympics,[6] however, she withdrew from the competition for medical reasons.
In 2022, Mardi won the gold medal at the 2022 African Amateur Boxing Championships.[3] She won silver medal at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships, after losing the final match against Şennur Demir.[7][8]
In March 2023, Mardi won a gold medal in the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships, thus winning her and Morocco's first women's gold medal in the IBA World Boxing Championships.[9][10] King Mohammed VI congratulated her on her victory.[11]
She won the gold medal in the women's +81 kg event at the 2023 African Games held in Accra, Ghana.[12]
