The former German boxing world champion Alesia Graf is dead. The native Belarusian died at the age of 43, as her former boxing stable Universum confirmed to the sports information service. The background to the death is still unclear.
Graf came to Germany in 1999 and started boxing in 2001. In 2006 she won the GBU bantamweight world title, two years later she received German citizenship and secured the internationally important WIBF world title.
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Graf was under contract with the Hamburg Universum boxing stable led by promoter Klaus-Peter Kohl and manager Peter Hanraths, where he was a teammate of former world champion Regina Halmich.
“I’m shocked and stunned. You were not only a training partner and world champion, but also a friend. 43 years old – far too young to leave,” Halmich wrote on social media on Sunday: “I don’t understand it. What sad news. RIP Alesia.”
