Joana Nwamerue Parents, Wiki, Age, Height, Nationality
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Joana Nwamerue Biography – Joana Nwamerue Wiki
Joana Nwamerue is a Bulgarian-Nigerian professional boxer. She is undefeated in her boxing career (6-0-0) since making her debut in 2019. She was matched to fight against Algerian boxer Imane Khelif during a sparring session in Sofia, which took place in February 2024 ahead of the annual Strandzha Cup.
Joana had been one of the female boxers selected by Bulgaria to go to the Olympic qualifiers in Bangkok. However, she did not make the final Olympic pick. Her colleague, Svetlana Staneva, moved ahead to represent the nation in the Featherweight (57KG) category. Khelif won gold in the Paris Olympics after she defeated Chinese fighter Yang Liu.
Joana Nwamerue Age
Boxer Joana Nwamerue was born on April 12, 1991, in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Joana Nwamerue Parents
Joana Nwamerue was born to a Nigerian father and a Bulgarian mother.
Imane Khelif Controversy
In an interview with Reduxx, Joana spoke out against Khelif after the Algerian boxer was in the middle of a gender controversy at the Paris Olympics. The Bulgarian-Nigerian boxer claimed Khelif is a “man”.
“[Khelif] has some kind of internal issues. But he is a man. I will stay [by] my words until he/she does a test to prove to the world that he/she is a WOMAN. But we all know that won’t happen,” Joana told Reduxx.
Appearing on a podcast with her friend Georgi Petkov, Joana explained how she witnessed Khelif’s “male power and male techniques” during a sparring session in February 2024.
“We played 3-4 sparring sessions. I have a record of everything. I can confirm that this is a man to me. Male power. Men’s techniques, everything,” she said.
Joana then claimed she was told by Khelif’s coaching team that the Algerian boxer has been ‘biologically altered’ by living in the mountains in Algeria.
“[Khelif’s] teammates came to me and told me ‘Imane is not a man. She is a woman and just lives high in the mountains with her relatives and parents and so there may be a change in her testosterone or chromosomes and the like,’” Joana said. “So myself and my coach watched [Khelif] and I said ‘that can’t be possible.’ Everywhere has people living in the mountains. It’s absurd.”
Khelif was born female and is not transgender. She was banned in 2023 after The International Boxing Association (IBA) carried out medical tests which said she had high levels of testosterone in her system.
Joana Nwamerue Height
Joana Nwamerue stands at a height of 5’7″ (1.7 m).
Nationality
She is of Bulgarian nationality.
Joana Nwamerue’s Instagram handle is @joana.nwamerue.
