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Women boxed at the Olympics from 2012
London added three women's weight classes to a men's programme of ten Boxing had been an Olympic sport for men since 1904, but women were excluded until the London Games. Nicola Adams of Britain won the first women's gold in the flyweight division. The number of women's classes has grown since, and Paris 2024 had six. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Women boxed at the Olympics from 2012: the short answers
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- London added three women's weight classes to a men's programme of ten. The figure is taken from Olympics.com, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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