Nicola Adams OBE is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2017 to 2019. She retired with an undefeated record and held the WBO female flyweight title in 2019. As an amateur, she became the first female boxer to become an Olympic champion after winning gold at London 2012, and the first double Olympic champion following a second gold medal at Rio 2016. Adams represented Haringey Police Community Club at boxing.
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Nicola Adams OBE is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2017 to 2019. She retired with an undefeated record and held the WBO female flyweight title in 2019. As an amateur, she became the first female boxer to become an Olympic champion after winning gold at London 2012, and the first double Olympic champion following a second gold medal at Rio 2016. Adams represented Haringey Police Community Club at boxing. She is openly lesbian, and was named the most influential LGBT person in Britain by The Independent in 2012. Adams fought her first bout at the age of 13, but it was four years before she found a second opponent. In 2001, she was the first woman boxer ever to represent England, in a fight against an Irish boxer. In 2007, Adams was first English female to win a medal in a major tournament, taking Silver in the bantamweight division at the European Championships in Denmark. She won Silver again at the world championships in Ningbo, China, in 2008.
In July 2011, the BBC included Adams in a feature on \”6 Promising Britons to watch in the Olympics\”. In the 2012 Summer Olympics, Adams defeated Mary Kom from India in the Flyweight semi-final. She went on to defeat Chinese boxer and world number one Ren Cancan in the final to claim the first Olympic women’s boxing Gold medal. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Adams knocked out Michaela Walsh of Northern Ireland to take the gold medal in the women’s flyweight division on a split decision. On 23 January 2017 it was confirmed that Adams had turned professional, having signed with promoter Frank Warren. She made her debut on 8 April, scoring a four-round points decision victory against Virginia Carcamo at the Manchester Arena. After securing another three wins, all by technical knockout, she faced former world champion Isabel Millan in October 2018 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester.
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