Claressa Maria Shields (born March 17, 1995) is an American professional boxer. She is currently a unified world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBC and IBF female super middleweight titles since 2017, and the WBA and IBF female middleweight titles since June 2018. Shields has held the Women Boxing Archive Network super middleweight title since January 2018.
As an amateur she won a gold medal in the women's middleweight division at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, making her the first American boxer—female or male—to win consecutive Olympic medals. Shields was the youngest boxer at the February 2012 U.S. Olympic trials, winning the event in the 165 lb (75 kg) middleweight division. In May, she qualified for the 2012 Olympics, the first year in which women's boxing was an Olympic event, and went on to become the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing.