Shelley Watts
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FullnameShelley Marie Watts
Nationality
Australia
AustraliaBorn10 August 1987 (age 38)
Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
Height164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
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| Full name | Shelley Marie Watts | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 August 1987 (age 38) Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) lightweight division | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Lightweight | ||||||||||||||
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Shelley Marie Watts (born 10 August 1987) is an Australian amateur boxer.[1] Watts competed in the women's lightweight division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won the gold medal.[1][2] She was also a competitor in the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships.
Watts qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, on 31 March 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 is now a lawyer. She began her law degree three years before starting boxing.[3]
