Charley Davison | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 11 January 1994 | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
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| Weight(s) | Flyweight, Bantamweight | ||||||||||||||
| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||
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Charley Davison OLY (born 11 January 1994) is a British amateur boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2023 European Games.
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] She was drawn to fight 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships gold medalist Hatice Akbaş from Turkey in the first round [10] and lost by a 3:2 split decision. [11] [12]
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