Charley Davison (born 11 January 1994) is a British amateur boxer who won a bronze medal at the

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Biography

Davison started boxing at the age of eight, trained by her father at home because the local boxing club did not accept girls. She fought

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in 2010 and 2011, before taking a seven year break from boxing and then winning the national championship in 2019. In June 2021, Davison qualified to represent Great Britain at the delayed

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, and reached the final of the

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by defeating Giordana Sorrentino via unanimous

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in the semi-final. She lost in the final of the Qualification event to Buse Naz Çakıroğlu by

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. At the Olympics in Tokyo, Davison went out in the round-of-16, losing by unanimous decision to China's Yuan Chang. Davison won a bronze medal in the bantamweight category at the

in Poland and in doing so qualified a quota place for the

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. On 7 June 2024, she was officially announced among the Great Britain squad for the Olympics in Paris. She was drawn to fight

2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships The 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships (the 12th edition of the championships) was held in Istanbul, Turkey from 8 to 20 May 2022. Medal winners were awarded prize money; gold medallists earn $100,000, silver medallists $50,000, and bro ...

gold medalist Hatice Akbaş from Turkey in the first round and lost by a 3:2 split decision.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Davison, Charley Living people English women boxers Flyweight boxers 1994 births Olympic boxers for Great Britain Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Blackpool Boxers at the 2023 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Great Britain European Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century English sportswomen