Carolina Duer

Carolina Raquel Duer
Statistics
Nickname(s) The Turk, La Turca, and La Colorada
Rated at Bantamweight
Nationality Argentina
Born 5 August 1978
Buenos Aries, Argentina
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 21
Wins 17
Wins by KO 5
Losses 3
Draws 1

Carolina Raquel Duer (known as "The Turk", "La Turca", and "La Colorada"; born 5 August 1978) is an Argentine world champion boxer.[1][2][3]

She holds the World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight title, and formerly held the WBO super flyweight championship.[1] Her record as of September 2014 was 17–3–1.[1][2]

Early life and personal

Duer was born 5 August 1978, in Buenos Aries, Argentina.[2] She is the daughter of Syrian immigrants.[1]

She is Jewish, attended a Jewish day school and Maccabi club, and celebrated her Bat Mitzvah in the Iona Hebrew Center, a Conservative synagogue.[1][2][4] She attended the Jaim Najman Bialik Primary School in Buenos Aires.[1]

Boxing career

Duer won 19 of 20 fights as an amateur, and turned pro in 2007.[5]

Duer became the WBO world super flyweight champion (fighters weighing 112 pounds to 115 pounds) in December 2010, and defended that title six times.[1][5][6][7]

She won the WBO world bantamweight title in July 2013, and in July 2014, Duer defeated Ana Maria Lozano of Venezuela by unanimous decision in Lanus, Argentina, in her second defense of the crown in the bantamweight 115- to 118-pound class.[1] Her record as of September 2014 was 17–3–1.[1][2]

She is the eighth Argentine woman to hold a WBO boxing championship, and the first Jewish one.[8] She follows in the footsteps of Argentine Jewish male boxers such as Jaime Averboch who in 1940 won the welterweight title, and Mariano Plotinsky (“The Demolisher”), who fought with a Star of David on his shorts and held the Organización Mundial de Boxeo Intercontinental title.[8]

Television

In 2013 Duer took part in the reality tv show Celebrity Splash! (Argentina), which teaches celebrities the art of diving.[9]

Duer began to announce boxing in 2014 on National Public Television.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "Argentine boxer Carolina Duer defends bantamweight crown". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 20 July 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Carolina Raquel Duer – Boxer". boxrec.com. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Argentine boxer Carolina Duer defends bantamweight crown; First Jewish woman to hold a WBO crown has retained it six times". The Times of Israel. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Argentinian Jewish boxer defends her title; Carolina Raquel Duer, the World Boxing Organization’s super flyweight champion, steps back into the ring.". The Jerusalem Post. 19 November 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Daniel Koren (29 July 2013). "Carolina Duer, First Jewish Woman To Win WBO Title; The Argentinian boxer, and former kibbutznik, known as 'The Turk,' has won 15 of 18 professional matches". Shalom Life. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Argentine Jewish boxer wins first bantamweight title; Carolina Duer becomes 8th Argentine woman - and first Jewish one - to hold World Boxing Organization championship". Haaretz. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "Interview: The ‘Iron Barbie’, Carolina Duer | Jonathan Gilbert". jonathan-gilbert.com. 17 July 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Jewish Boxer Retains Championship Belt". The Forward. 8 July 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Carolina Duer y Ariel Ortega, eliminados de Celebrity Splash, 23 July 2013, ar.celebridades.yahoo.com

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