Sirine Charaabi

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Sirine Charaabi (born 7 May 1999) is an Italian amateur boxer. She is a silver medalist at the IBA World Championships (2023) and a bronze medalist at the World Boxing Championships (2025).

NationalityItaly
Born (1999-05-07) 7 May 1999 (age 26)
El Fahs, Tunisia
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
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Sirine Charaabi
Personal information
NationalityItaly
Born (1999-05-07) 7 May 1999 (age 26)
El Fahs, Tunisia
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
WeightBantamweight
Flyweight
Boxing career
Medal record
Women's amateur boxing
Representing  Italy
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2025 Liverpool54 kg
IBA World Championships
Silver medal – second place2023 New DelhiFlyweight
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Early life and career

Born in El Fahs, Tunisia, at the age of 18 months, Charaabi joined her father, who worked in the province of Caserta, in Italy. At the age of 5, following her cousin, she joined the Tifata boxing gym in San Prisco, directed by master Giuseppe Perugino. In 2012, she won her first national youth title, while in 2018 she won the silver medal in the final of the Italian Championships.[1]

Amateur career

After enrolling at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", she continued to practice boxing, but only at the national level, as she did not yet have Italian citizenship. She won the gold medal at the 2021 Italian Championships and shortly thereafter obtained Italian citizenship.[2] She was finally able to wear the blue jersey, immediately winning a bronze at the Oxam international tournament and gold at the European Under-22 Championships.[3]

At the 2022 Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria, Charaabi lost to Hatice Akbaş, the latter in whom went on to win the gold medal.[4] In 2023, she won the silver medal when she lost to Wu Yu in the flyweight category at the 2023 Women's World Championships in New Delhi.[5][6][7] At the 2023 European Games held at Nowy Targ Arena in Nowy Targ, Poland, she reached the quarter-finals in the women's bantamweight division, where she lost to Akbaş who went on to win a bronze medal.[8] At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she was defeated in the first round of 32 match.[9]

In September 2025, at the World Boxing Championships, Charaabi competed in the 54 kg category. She reached the semifinals where she lost to Yoseline Perez.[10][11]

Charaabi's story inspired the novel Il ring, written by Chiara Lico and published in 2024 by Giunti.[12][13]

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