The boxing community is grieving the loss of a rising star.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hannah Rapp, an up-and-coming boxer who challenged for the WBC women’s featherweight championship in June, died July 18 after a driver hit her with his car while she was riding her bike in Texas, the Brazos County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed. She was 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Saturday, July 18, 2026, just before 10:00 a.m., deputies with the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the 23000 block of FM 159 in reference to a major crash involving a vehicle and a bicyclist,\u201d local officials wrote in a July 19\u00a0statement<\/a>. \u201cInitial reports indicated that a vehicle had struck a bicyclist, leaving an adult female lying in the roadway.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFirst responders arrived on scene and provided emergency medical care before the victim was transported to a local hospital,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cDespite lifesaving efforts, she later passed away at the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n The driver, \u201cidentified as 31-year-old Charles Medina,\u201d per the statement, passed Rapp and another cyclist while traveling along FM 159 before he stopped his vehicle, \u201creversed, and struck\u201d Rapp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boxing community is grieving the loss of a rising star.\u00a0 Hannah Rapp, an up-and-coming boxer who challenged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-814472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}