Nicola Adams Nicola Adams Nicola Adams (born 26 October 1982) is a British professional boxer. The first woman to win an Olympic boxing title in 2012, she is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the women's flyweight division. As of 27 May 2016 she is the reigning Olympic, World and European Games champion at flyweight, and has won the entire set of amateur championships available to her - Olympic, Commonwealth and European Games' titles, and the World, European and European Union championships. Adams represented Haringey Police Community Club at boxing. She is openly bisexual, and was named the most influential
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