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NEW Nicola Adams
2020 to win the medal, and landed GB’s first ever female
Professional boxer boxing gold. In 2016 she became the first British boxer
in 92 years to successfully defend their Olympic title.
The Leeds-born sportswoman was appointed MBE in
Nicola Adams is Britain’s most successful female boxer 2013 and awarded an OBE in 2016 in recognition of her
of all time. services to sport. She turned professional in 2017.
A role model to young girls and women across the Nicola was named by The Independent as the most
country, she is credited with single-handedly fuelling influential LGBT person in Britain in 2012 and number
the rise in women joining boxing clubs – 50 per cent of one in the DIVA Power List of the UK’s most eminent
people who joined boxing fitness classes in the UK last lesbian and bisexual women. She is as an ambassador
year were female. She has a Grand Slam of titles and for the charity Fight for Peace, which helps train young
is the only woman boxer in history to have won every people from disadvantaged communities in boxing and
major gong available to her: Olympic, World, European martial arts, and fronted a campaign for mental health
and Commonwealth. charity MQ. This year she joined Anthony Joshua
During the 2012 London Olympics she scooped gold and Prince Harry to launch Made for Sport, a project
and became an icon to fans across the country – she aimed at raising £40million to support disadvantaged
had defeated three-time world champion Ren Cancan children through sport.

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