Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's middleweight
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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.
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Venue | ExCeL Exhibition Centre | ||||||||||||||||
Date | 5 to 9 August | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 12 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||||||
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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.[1]
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.[2] Her victory will be depicted in the film Flint Strong.[3]