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Born | Torre Annunziata, Italy | 28 December 1997||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Irma "Butterfly" Testa[1] (born 28 December 1997) is an Italian boxer. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[2] and won a bronze medal in the women's featherweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3][1]
In 2021, she came out as queer.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Irma Testa, storica medaglia ma il sogno di Butterfly continua" (in Italian). 28 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Irma Testa". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ^ "Boxing TESTA Irma". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Italian Olympic boxer Irma Testa comes out as queer". GAY TIMES. 5 December 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
External links
- Irma Testa at BoxRec (registration required)
- Irma Testa at Olympics.com
- Irma Testa at Olympedia
- Irma Testa at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
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