Nicola Adams, MBE, born 26 October 1982, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, is British boxer, and is the first woman to win an Olympic boxing title. She was a Gold Medal winner at the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London. She was educated at Agnes Stewart Church of England High School, Burmantofts, Leeds.
Adams who struggled to continue her boxing career due to lack of funds, at one time worked as an acting extra on soaps such as ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘EastEnders’ , also worked as a builder before the International Olympic Committee backed funding for women’s boxing in 2009
This sensational athlete represented Haringey Police Community Club at boxing, As of July 2012 (and before the London Summer Olympic Games), she was rated World Number Two in the flyweight (51kg) division, behind Chinese world champion Ren Cancan, whom she eventually defeated at 2012 Olympic final in London.
Nicola Adams laughs a lot that is her signature, no dull moment for this beautiful boxer. According to her, she said: ‘I always try to have fun. Even in my walk up to the ring I was smiling, I was happy. My coach said to me when I first started that it is all about enjoying it, no matter that there is a lot at stake and it is serious but you still have to enjoy your sport because it is over so quickly’
A lady of many firsts’, in 2007, Adams was the first English female to win a medal in a major tournament, taking Silver in the bantamweight (54kg) division at the European Championships in Denmark. In November 2010, She is also the first ever GB Amateur Boxing Championship at the Echo Arena Liverpool, where she won silver.
In 2012 she became the first female boxer to receive an award from the Boxing Writers' Club of Great Britain. Specifically, she was awarded the ‘Joe Bromley Award’ for an outstanding service to boxing. She was also the first woman ever to be invited to the club's awards ceremony.
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to boxing
This worthy Ambassador of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, has this to say: ‘I am president of Us Girls, a charity that tries to get girls from disadvantaged areas into sport. We get girls doing loads of different sports, not just boxing.” ‘’I would be more wary of boxing a pretty boxer than I would one that looks like they have been bashed up a bit because the pretty boxer obviously doesn’t get hit – so that means they must be quite good! It’s like Muhammad Ali – ‘I’m so pretty, I’m so pretty’.” And Adams laughs again.’
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