Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics having won double gold in the four in 2008 and 2012. Alistair Brownlee became the first triathlete to successfully defend an Olympic title and his younger brother Jonny Brownlee upgraded his London bronze to a silver in the men's triathlon, one of three events with the men's pommel and men's individual sprint where Great Britain finished first and second. No British woman having ever defended an individual Olympic title, Trott, Dujardin, taekwondo-ka Jade Jones and boxer Nicola Adams became the first four British female Olympians ever to successfully defend individual Olympic titles, with Trott becoming the first British female, and
Boxing in Armenia memorial plate in Olympia, Greece, at the Olympic Museum. The modern history of boxing in Armenia starts in the early twentieth century. The city of Shushi, then part of the Russian Empire, was a major center of Armenian cultural life in the Caucasus, was the location of the first boxing school, opened in 1910 by Ruben Harutyunian from England. It also hosted competitions that were held twice a year and lasted for about a decade until 1920. The Soviet regime in Armenia was established in 1920. Four years later in 1924, Gevorg Alikhanian and Mkhitar Aybabian started the first boxing