Ariane Fortin (born November 20, 1984) is a Canadian southpaw amateur boxer. She is a two-time World Boxing Champion. She also won a silver medal in the middleweight category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada. In order to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as well as the World Championship in 2014, Ariane ran a successful crowdfunding campaign on MAKEACHAMP. Fortin took up boxing in 2004. In 2005, at 21 years old, she took part of the 2005 World Championships and won the silver medal. A year later, she won the gold medal at the 2006 World Championships in New Delhi, and repeated the same performance at the 2008 World Championships in Ningbo, China. After failing to qualify to the 2012 Summer Olympics decided to move to another country with less rivalry in boxing. She chose Lebanon and started learning Arabic, but reconsidered after intervention from the International Amateur Boxing Association. Her attempts to qualify for the 2012 Olympics were presented in the 2013 Canadian documentary Last Women Standing. In 2014, she competed in the World Championships in South Korea and took the bronze medal, suffering her only loss in the semifinal against American and already Olympic champion Claressa Shields. In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team. At the Olympics she was eliminated in the first bout in a controversial split decision. References External links 1984 births Living people Canadian women boxers Middleweight boxers Olympic boxers of Canada Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada Pan American Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2015 Pan American Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Boxers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Quebec AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games 20th-century Canadian women 21st-century Canadian women Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games