[2] Also interested in the army and more precisely in demining, she was received in the contest of the National Active Non-Commissioned Officers School of Saint-Maixent.

[3] In March 2018 she received the bronze honour medal for courage and devotion from the city of Paris for having rescued in June 2017 a young Mauritanian migrant, injured by a driver, by applying a tourniquet on his leg.

[8] In November 2016, Maïva Hamadouche won her first IBF World Super featherweight title,[9] still vacant, winning by points in 10 rounds in Paris against the American Jennifer Salinas.

[9] She retained the title in January 2017 against Milena Koleva, from Bulgaria,[9] in May 2017 against Anahí Ester Sánchez, from Argentina,[9] then in 2018 against the French Myriam Dellal.

[11] Taking advantage of a rule change which allowed professional boxers to compete in the Olympics, Hamadouche qualified for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games only to lose in her opening contest to Finland's Mira Potkonen.