Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics The boxing tournaments at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 12 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. A total of 286 competitors took part in 13 events. For the first time at an Olympic Games, women competed in three boxing events. The first Olympic gold medal in women's boxing was awarded to Nicola Adams from Great Britain, who won the flyweight tournament on 9 August 2012. Men competed in the following ten events: Women's boxing was included in the Olympic programme for the first time, with female boxers
Singapore at the Olympics The two bronze medals won at the 2012 London Olympics marked the first time that Singapore won more than one medal in a single Olympic Games. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, Olympic swimmer Joseph Schooling won a gold medal in the Men's 100 metre butterfly in an Olympics record of 50.39 seconds, beating joint second Michael Phelps, Chad le Clos, and László Cseh by 0.75 seconds. This is also the first ever gold Olympic medal by a Southeast Asian male swimmer and the first Olympic gold that Singapore achieved. To date, athletes from Singapore have won a total of 5