Tammara Thibeault wins bronze at AIBA women’s world championships

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Team Canada's Tammara Thilbeault seen here winning bronze in women's middleweight boxing at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games. (David Jackson/CP via COC)

ULAN-UDE, Russia – Canadian boxer Tammara Thibeault earned a bronze medal on Saturday at the AIBA Elite Women’s World Championship.

Thibeault lost 4-1 in the semifinals to Nouchka Mireille Fontijn of the Netherlands to finish in bronze-medal position.

The 22-year-old middleweight from Montreal also won bronze this past summer at the Pan American Games in Peru.

Thibeault was the 2017 Canadian champion in her 75-kilogram weight class and won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games bronze in 2018.

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