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Boxing At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's Middleweight
The women's middleweight 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 were joined by three women's events: flyweight, lightweight and middleweight. Seventeen-year-old American Claressa Shields won gold in the women's middleweight, defeating Russia's veteran thirty-three-year-old Nadezda Torlopova by a score of 19–12 in the final. Her victory is depicted in the 2024 film '' The Fire Inside''. Competition format The competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament. Bronze medals were awarded to both semi-final losers. Bouts were four rounds of two minutes each. Accessed 2 May 2012. Schedule ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |