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
Boxing in China event, and Zhang Xiaoping won the gold medal in the Light Heavyweight (81 kg) event. On 24 November 2012 Xiong Zhao Zhong became the first male boxer from China to win a major professional world boxing title, the WBC minimumweight title. The fight was well received with many of China's major media organisations hailing the event as a huge success. Due to the overwhelming positive reaction boxing promoters have promised to accelerate the growth of boxing throughout China. Light Flyweight contender Ma Yiming challenged for the WBA light flyweight interim championship in April 2015, losing via a first round technical