Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's flyweight Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's flyweight The women's flyweight boxing competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 5 to 9 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. For the first time at an Olympic Games, the 10 men's boxing events was joined by three women's events: flyweight, middleweight, and lightweight. Nicola Adams from Great Britain won the gold medal — the first Olympic gold ever awarded in women's boxing. Adams beat China's Ren Cancan by 16 points to seven in the final. The competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament. Bronze medals were awarded to
Timeline of women's sports in the United States NBA Development League, an affiliate of the Dallas Mavericks, thus making her the first woman to coach a professional men's basketball team. 2009 - The second professional women's soccer league, Women's Professional Soccer, is launched. 2010 - Kelly Kulick won the 2010 "PBA Tournament of Champions", where she was the first-ever female competitor in the field. This also made her the first woman to win any Professional Bowlers Association Tour event that was also open to men. 2012 - The U.S. Olympic team had more women than men for the first time — 269 female athletes to 261 men. 2012