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
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