Nadine Apetz

Nadine Apetz (born 3 January 1986) is a German amateur boxer. She won bronze medals at the World Championships in 2016 and 2018, and gold at the 2017 EU Championships. In 2021, she became the first German woman to qualify for a boxing event at the Summer Olympic Games.

Nadine Apetz
Statistics
Weight(s)Welterweight[1]
Height1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[1]
Born (1986-01-03) 3 January 1986
Haan, West Germany
Medal record
Women's amateur boxing
Representing  Germany
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2016 AstanaWelterweight
Bronze medal – third place2018 New DelhiWelterweight
European Games
Bronze medal – third place2019 MinskWelterweight
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place2018 SofiaWelterweight
EU Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 CasciaWelterweight

Personal life

Apetz was born on 3 January 1986 in Haan,[2] and started boxing aged 21, whilst studying at the University of Bremen, after being unable to afford to continue riding and playing tennis.[3][4] After completing her BSc degree in biology in 2009, Apetz moved to Australia for three years, studying for her Master's thesis.[5] In 2011, she graduated with a master's degree in neuroscience from the University of Bremen.[6] Since 2016, Apetz is undertaking a PhD degree in neuroscience.[6][7] She researches at the University Hospital Cologne for her topic of "deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease in old age."[4] Her boxing trainer is Lukas Wilaschek.[3] Apetz was appointed as a member of the Youth Commission of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) for a term from 2019 to 2022.[8][9]

Amateur career

She placed fifth at the 2011 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships.[3] She won a bronze medal at the 2016 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships, having achieved unanimous points decisions over Meena Rani, Timea Nagy, and Naomi Graham before losing to the eventual champion Valentina Khalzova.[1][10] She was the first German boxer to win a medal at the championships since their inception in 2001.[11]

At the 2017 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships she won the gold medal,[12] by eliminating Sandy Ryan, Gráinne Walsh and, in the final, Hanna Solecka.[1] Apetz took bronze at the 2018 World Championships, and has won the German championship six times since 2011.[7][13][4]

There was no women's welterweight competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics. When it was announced that it would be included in the 2020 Summer Olympics, Apetz decided to focus on qualifying.[4] In June 2021, she qualified to represent Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics after reaching the semi-finals of the 2020 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament,[14] becoming the first German woman to qualify for a boxing event at the Olympics.[15] She lost in the final to Busenaz Sürmeneli.[16]

References
  1. "Nadine Apetz". boxrec.com. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  2. "Nadine Apetz". teamdeutschland.de. Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  3. "Boxerin Nadine Apatz: alles kopfsache" [Boxer Nadine Apatz: everything about the head]. sporthilfe.de (in German). 11 December 2019. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  4. de Haas, Denis (30 May 2021). "Titel sammeln" [Collect titles]. Welt am Sonntag (in German). Berlin. p. 4.
  5. Stroß, Peter (14 December 2018). "Zwischen Büffeln und Boxring" [Between swotting and boxing ring]. koelnsport.de (in German). Archived from the original on 23 October 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  6. Boxing APETZ Nadine - website of - Tokyo 2020 Olympics
  7. "Some Olympic boxing hopefuls needed only one more day". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Associated Press. 24 April 2020. Archived from the original on 8 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  8. Etchells, Daniel (28 March 2019). "AIBA Interim President nominee Moustahsane named by Rakhimov as member of World Series of Boxing Commission". Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  9. "AIBA approved seven commissions members". AIBA. 26 March 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  10. "AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships Astana 2016" (PDF). AIBA. 27 May 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 March 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  11. "Boxen: Nadine Apetz" [Boxing: Nadine Apetz]. Welt am Sonntag (in German). Berlin. 28 July 2019. p. 28.
  12. "European Union Boxing Championships Women's Elite – Medallists by Weight Category" (PDF). EUBC. 12 August 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  13. "Germany's two-time AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships bronze medallist Nadine Apetz is excited before the start of the Cologne Boxing World Cup". 15 December 2020. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  14. Berkeley, Geoff (5 June 2020). "Mamedov stuns top seed to seal Tokyo 2020 place at European boxing qualifier". Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  15. "Hamburger Boxer Abduljabbar qualifiziert sich für Olympia" [Hamburg boxer Abduljabbar qualifies for the Olympics] (in German). 6 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  16. Shefferd, Neil (8 June 2021). "Britain win three golds on finals day at European Olympic boxing qualifier". Retrieved 9 June 2021.
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