Henriette Birkeland Kitel
Norwegian amateur boxer and kickboxer
Henriette Birkeland Kitel (born 25 July 1973) born is a Norwegian amateur boxer and kickboxer.
She was born in Ålesund, but is from Molde where she grew up. She took up amateur boxing in the club Moldekameratene.
In kickboxing, she won silver at the 1996 European Championships, bronze at the 1997 World Championships and gold at the 1999 World Championships. She represented the club Fighter KBK.
Competing in the featherweight class (57kg), she won the 2001 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships before reaching the final of the 2001 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships. Here, she lost to Zhang Maomao and took the silver medal. Another silver followed at the 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships, where Jo Pok-sun won 16–7 in the final.
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