Ariane Fortin

{{Short description|Canadian boxer (born 1984)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2018}}

{{Infobox boxer (amateur)

| name = Ariane Fortin

| image = Ariane Fortin Rio2016.jpg

| caption = Fortin at the 2016 Olympics

| nationality = {{CAN}}

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|November 20, 1984}}

| birth_place = Quebec, Canada

| height = 180 cm

| weight = 75 kg

| club = Underdog Boxing Club[http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=fortin-ariane-1230854/index.html Ariane Fortin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815074931/http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=fortin-ariane-1230854/index.html |date=August 15, 2016 }}. nbcolympics.com

| coach = Daniel Trepanier (national)
Mike Moffa (personal)

| weight_class = Middleweight

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport|Women's amateur boxing}}

{{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }}

{{MedalComp | World Championships }}

{{MedalGold | 2006 New Delhi | Light middleweight }}

{{MedalGold | 2008 Ningbo | Light middleweight }}

{{MedalSilver | 2005 Podolsk | Light middleweight }}

{{MedalBronze | 2014 Jeju | Middleweight }}

{{MedalComp | Commonwealth Games }}

{{MedalSilver | 2014 Glasgow | Middleweight }}

{{MedalComp | Pan American Games }}

{{MedalBronze | 2015 Toronto | Light heavyweight }}

}}

Ariane Fortin (born November 20, 1984) is a Canadian southpaw amateur boxer.{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/ariane-fortin-fronts-canada-s-commonwealth-games-boxing-team-1.2662510 |title=Ariane Fortin fronts Canada's Commonwealth Games boxing team |work=The Canadian Press |date=June 2, 2014}} She is a two-time World Boxing Champion. She also won a silver medal in the middleweight category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games{{cite web |url=http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/boxing/1019574/a_fortin.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140812034605/http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/boxing/1019574/a_fortin.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |title=Ariane Fortin |publisher=Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games |accessdate=August 10, 2014}} and a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.{{cite web |url=http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/en/boxing/athlete-profile-n10181851-fortin-ariane.htm |title=Ariane Fortin Boxing - Athlete Profile |publisher=Toronto 2015 PanAm |accessdate=July 20, 2015}}

In order to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as well as the World Championship in 2014, Ariane ran a successful crowdfunding campaign on [http://makeachamp.com/ MAKEACHAMP].[http://makeachamp.com/arianefortin?cmp_id=1681 Ariane Fortin]. makeachamp.com

Fortin took up boxing in 2004. In 2005, at 21 years old, she took part in 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.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2933338/ Last Woman Standing (2013)]. IMDb

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.{{cite web |url=http://olympic.ca/2016/07/14/three-canadian-boxers-nominated-for-rio-2016/ |title=Three Canadian boxers nominated for Rio 2016 |last=Friche do Valle |first=Diana |date=July 14, 2016 |website=www.olympic.ca |publisher=Canadian Olympic Committee |accessdate=July 14, 2016}} At the Olympics she was eliminated in the first bout in a controversial split decision.{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/rio2016/boxing/ariane-fortin-olympic-debut-rio-1.3720451 |title=Ariane Fortin sees Olympics end in controversial split decision |work=The Canadian Press |date=August 14, 2016}}