Hanna Gabriel

Who is Hanna Gabriel?

Hanna Gabriel Valle is a Costa Rican boxer, junior middleweight category, whose career has been highlighted by several international victories.

Gabriel is the daughter of Yolanda Valle Moreno and Lesslie Gabriel Binns, a promising boxer who qualified for the Olympic Games in Moscow 1980, but was unable to attend. She has one brother, Windell Gabriel, who plays football in the Costa Rican first division.

She debuted in the Gimnasio Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica, on November 17, 2007, fighting Nicaraguan Aoska Xochilet Herrera and defeating her by KO.

On December 19, 2009 Gabriel won the World Boxing Organization welterweight World Championship against Argentine Gabriela Zapata by technical knockout during the fourth round. The fight took place in the Dennis Martinez stadium, Managua, Nicaragua and was part of an evening in posthumous tribute to triple world champion Alexis Arguello, El Flaco Explosivo, considered as one of the greatest boxers of all time.

On January 14, 2010, just over a month after that victory, she renounced the title after suffering several blackouts due to her diet.