Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's lightweight
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Women's lightweight boxing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | ExCeL Exhibition Centre | ||||||||||||||||
Date | 5 to 9 August | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 12 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||||||
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The women's lightweight 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 ten men's boxing events were joined by three women's events: flyweight, middleweight and lightweight.[1][2]
Katie Taylor from Ireland won the gold medal — the first of the 2012 Games for the country. Taylor defeated Russia's Sofya Ochigava in the final.[3][4][5]
Bronze medals were awarded to both semi-final losers: Adriana Araujo from Brazil and Mavzuna Chorieva from Tajikistan — the latter being the country's only medal at the 2012 Games.