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Hannah Rankin (born 21 July 1990) is a Scottish professional boxer and bassoonist. She held the WBA female super-welterweight title since November 2021. She has also held the IBO title in 2019 and challenged for the WBA female super-middleweight title in 2018; the unified WBA, WBC, and IBF female middleweight titles in 2018; and the WBO female middleweight title in 2020. As of October 2020, she is ranked as the fifth best active female middleweight by The Ring and sixth by BoxRec.Hannah Rankin was born on 21 July 1990 and grew up on her family's Edentaggart farm in Luss, Scotland. As a child, she attended Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh, Scotland, and gained an interest in contact sports at aged nine after enrolling in taekwondo classes with her younger sister. Aside from sports she also had an interest in music, learning to play the flute at school and eventually switching to the bassoon. As an accomplished bassoonist, she attended the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, and later the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she earned a master's degree in 2016. She continues her musical career alongside boxing, teaching music to children and performing in her quintet "Coriolis" at care homes and schools.Rankin made her professional debut on 21 May 2017, against Ester Konecna at the SkyLark Hotel in Essex, England, winning via points decision (PTS) over six rounds. She fought a further three times in 2017; a points decision win over Borislava Goranova in September; a split decision (SD) loss to Joanna Ekedahl in October; and a points decision win in a rematch with Ester Konecna in November.She started 2018 with a first-round technical knockout (TKO) win over Klaudia Vigh in January, before facing Sarah Turunen for her first professional title on 16 June 2018, at the Lagoon Leisure Centre in Paisley, Scotland. Rankin won via unanimous decision (100–90, 100–91, 99–91) over ten rounds to capture the vacant WBC Silver female middleweight title.