Carolina Raquel Duer was born on 5 August 1978 and is an Argentine boxer and former world champion.
10 Facts About Carolina Duer
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Carolina Duer formerly held the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title, the World Boxing Organization bantamweight, and earlier the WBO super flyweight championship.
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Carolina Duer is Jewish, attended a Jewish day school and Maccabi club, and celebrated her Bat Mitzvah in the Iona Hebrew Center, a Conservative synagogue.
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Carolina Duer attended the Jaim Najman Bialik Primary School in Buenos Aires.
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Carolina Duer won 19 of 20 fights as an amateur, and turned pro in 2007.
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Carolina Duer became the WBO world super flyweight champion in December 2010, and defended that title six times.
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Carolina Duer 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.
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Carolina Duer is the eighth Argentine woman to hold a WBO boxing championship, and the first Jewish one.
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Carolina Duer lost the title in her first defense, to Maria Cecilia Roman, by split decision.
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Carolina Duer began to announce boxing in 2014 on National Public Television.