Charley Davison

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Charley Davison
Born (1994-01-11) 11 January 1994 (age 30)
Lowestoft, Norfolk, England
NationalityBritish
Statistics
Weight(s) Flyweight, Bantamweight
Stance Southpaw
Medal record
Women's amateur boxing
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
European Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Kraków-Małopolska Bantamweight

Charley Davison is a British amateur boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2023 European Games.

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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. [1] She fought Ornella Wahner in 2010 and 2011, [2] before taking a seven year break from boxing and then winning the national championship in 2019. [3]

In June 2021, Davison qualified to represent Great Britain at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, [4] and reached the final of the 2020 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament by defeating Giordana Sorrentino via unanimous points decision in the semi-final. [5] She lost in the final of the Qualification event to Buse Naz Çakıroğlu by split decision. [6]

At the Olympics in Tokyo, Davison went out in the round-of-16, losing by unanimous decision to China's Yuan Chang. [7]

Davison won a bronze medal in the bantamweight category at the 2023 European Games in Poland and in doing so qualified a quota place for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [8] On 7 June 2024, she was officially announced among the Great Britain squad for the Olympics in Paris. [9]

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References

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