Mikaela Laurén

Mikaela Destiny Laurén, (born 20 January 1975) is a Swedish former national team Swimmer and now one of Sweden's best known professional boxers.

Mikaela Laurén grew up in Enskede in southern Stockholm. She started swimming at the age of three and trained with the Stockholm police sports association. At the age of eighteen she moved to the USA, there she was recruited by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. During her stay in the country she decided to tattoo the text "Destiny" on her sway-back, at the same time that her best friend swimmer Therese Alshammar tattooed the text "Diva" at the same spot on her body.[1] In 2001 Laurén returned to Sweden and continued her preparation for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

In March 2005 she was arrested for having anabola steroids in her home.[2] She was sentenced to one year and two months imprisonment for doping and weapon crimes. She served her sentence until her release in May 2006.[3][4] During her imprisonment she studied nutrition and training at the Mittuniversity in Östersund. She also continued physio and lead the training for the inmates at the prison. After her release she educated herself to become a personal trainer, she decided to return to USA and Santa Monica to start her work to become a professional boxer. Mikaela Laurén signed a contract with New Sweden in May 2007 and made her pro-boxer debut in April 2009. She won World Professional Boxing Federation:s world championship belt in welter on 24 September 2010. This after beating the 40 year old American Jill Emery on point in Karlstad.[3] On 30 October 2010 Mikaela met the boxer Cecilia Brækhus in a match in Germany where she lost on technical knock out in the seventh round.

She has made 26 professional matches and won 23 of them. On 8 November 2014 she won the WBC title in superwelter weight against the American boxer Aleksandra Magdaziak.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Divines Tysklandsbesök ingen slump för Destiny". DN.SE. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Mikaela Laurén - från brottsling till boxare". Expressen. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Swedish boxer wins women's world title". Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Mikaela Laurén fick fängelse". Expressen. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Laurén världsmästare – tog hem WBC-bältet". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Jose Landeros. "World Boxing Council". Retrieved 20 January 2015.