Beatriz Iasmin Soares Ferreira (; born 9 December 1992) is a Brazilian boxer.

She won a medal at the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships.

Beatriz Ferreira

She represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She won the silver medal in the women's lightweight event.

Beatriz Ferreira

Medals and individual awards of Beatriz Ferreira in boxing

National

2x Open Games of the Interior (2014 and 2015) 2x Paulista Champion (2016 and 2018) 4x Brazilian Champion (2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022)

Beatriz Ferreira

International

2x Gold — World Championship (2019 and 2023) 1x Silver — World Championship (2022) 1x Silver — Olympic Games (2020) 3x Gold — Strandja Tournament (2019, 2021 and 2023)

2x Gold — Belgrade Winner Tournament (2017 and 2018) 1x Gold — Continental Elite Women (2017) 1x Gold — XI South American Games (2018) 1x Gold — Continental Elite Women (2018) 1x Gold — Balkan Tournament (2018)

1x Gold — Feliks Stamm Tournament (2019) 1x Gold — Grand Prix Ustí Nad Laben (2019) 1x Gold — Pan American Games (2019) 1x Gold — Selesian Tournament (2019) 1x Gold — Balkan Tournament (2020)

1x Gold — Cologne Worldcup (2021) 1x Gold — Military World Championship (2021) 1x Gold — Bosckai Tournament (2022) 1x Gold — Continental AMBC Elite (2022) 1x Gold — Grand Prix-Brazil (2022)

1x Silver — Elimination Pan American Games (2019) 1 x Silver — 69th Strandja Tournament (2018) 1x Silver — Feliks Stamm Tournament (2018) 1x Bronze — Magomed-Salam Mackhachkala Tournament (2017)

Individual awards

2x Best Athlete in Brazil (2019 and 2023) Best athlete in the world by Aiba (2019) 3x Best Boxing Athlete by COB (2017, 2018 and 2019)

Facts about Beatriz Ferreira

Raimundo Ferreira, father of Beatriz Ferreira, was also a boxer. “Sergipe” was twice Brazilian champion and three times champion in Bahia. Bia's love for boxing was already big since childhood, and it came so early, that at the age of 15 she started giving boxing lessons. As part of the Olympic Experience (Vivência Olímpica in Portuguese) program, Beatriz participated in the Brazilian delegation at the Rio 2016 Games and sparred with Adriana Araújo, the first Olympic medalist in women's brazilian boxing (bronze medal). Beatriz wants to help equalize the number of female and male categories, going from three to five. This is a way to help the new generation not go through the same difficulties as hers. Ferreira has the best result in women's brazilian boxing at the Olympics (silver medal in Tokyo 2020). In July 2020, Beatriz Ferreira became the first Brazilian boxer to be number one in the AIBA World Ranking in the lightweight category (60 kg). Bia is also the first Brazilian woman chosen as the best athlete at a World Boxing Championship when she won her first gold medal in 2019. The boxer has two younger sisters, Samira and Maria Antônia. In an interview, the fighter said that her father had a fight on the day of Samira's birth. Raimundo accompanied the birth and then picked up Bia at home to fight afterwards. Bia is not only a military athlete, as she has already won a gold medal at the 2021 Moscow Military World Games in the up to 60 kg category.

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1992 births

Living people

AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists

Brazilian women boxers

Lightweight boxers

World lightweight boxing champions

Boxers at the 2019 Pan American Games

Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil

Pan American Games medalists in boxing

South American Games medalists in boxing

South American Games gold medalists for Brazil

Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games

Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Olympic medalists in boxing

Olympic silver medalists for Brazil

Olympic boxers for Brazil

Sportspeople from Salvador, Bahia

21st-century Brazilian women

Boxers at the 2023 Pan American Games