Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's flyweight both semi-final losers, Marlen Esparza of the United States and Mary Kom of India. Each bout comprised four rounds of two minutes each. 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
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