Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses to women boxers, and most nations officially banning the sport. Reports of women entering the ring go back to the 18th century.
Nikhat Zareen is an Indian boxer and a two-time world champion. She won a gold medal at the 2011 AIBA Women's Youth & Junior World Boxing Championships held in Antalya. Zareen won gold medals at the 2022 Istanbul, and 2023 New Delhi IBA Women's World Boxing Championships. She also won gold medal at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. She won the bronze medal in the Light flyweight event in the 2022 Asian Games.
Michaela Walsh is an amateur boxer from Ireland who fights in the featherweight division. Walsh is an Olympian, who competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Lauren Louise Price is a Welsh professional boxer, former amateur boxer and former kickboxer and footballer. She has held the WBA, IBO, and Ring female welterweight World titles since 11 May 2024. She was the first-ever female British professional boxing champion having won the welterweight title on 6 May 2023 and holding it until vacating the belt when she became World champion. While representing Wales in the amateur sport she won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal. Four years later she surpassed this achievement by winning gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, followed by a gold at the 2019 World Championships. While representing Great Britain, she won gold medals at the 2019 European Games and 2020 Summer Olympics.
Maddison Keeney is an Australian diver. She is a dual Olympic medalist, winning a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She has also won gold medals at the 2017 and 2019 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games, and silver medals at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Rosie Eccles is a Welsh amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games as well as a host of other medals at international competitions representing both Wales and Great Britain.
Lovlina Borgohain is an Indian boxer. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in the women's welterweight event, becoming only the third Indian boxer to win a medal at the Olympics. She won gold medal at 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships and bronze medals at the 2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships and the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships. Borgohain is the first female athlete and the second boxer from Assam to represent the state in the Olympics. In 2020, she became the sixth person from Assam to receive Arjuna Award.
Tupuola Seua’i Ato Leau Plodzicki-Faoagali is a Samoan amateur boxer who has represented Samoa at the Pacific Games, Commonwealth Games and the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Demie-Jade Resztan is an English amateur boxer who has won multiple international medals representing England including silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships.
Lin Yu-ting is a Taiwanese amateur boxer. She has won two gold medals at the IBA World Boxing Championships, in addition to two gold medals at the Asian Games and one at the Asian Amateur Boxing Championships. She competed for Taiwan at the 2024 Summer Olympics where she defeated Julia Szeremeta of Poland in the final of the women's 57 kg category (featherweight). Lin is the first Taiwanese boxer to win an Olympic gold medal.
Caitlin Parker is an Australian amateur boxer, who became the first female boxer from Australia to win an Olympic medal when she took bronze at the 2024 Paris Games. Parker has also won silver and bronze medals at two Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2014 Youth Olympics.
Imane Khelif is an Algerian professional boxer. She won the gold medal in the women's welterweight event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Ornella Sathoud is a Ghanaian amateur boxer. She is competing in the women's middleweight division in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Teagan Levi is an Australian rugby union player who has represented Australia at sevens rugby at the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games.
Nitu Ghanghas, also known mononymously as Nitu, is an Indian boxer who is 2023 world champion in minimumweight category and a two-time world youth champion in light flyweight. She won the gold medal at the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games in the minimumweight category.
Jaismine Lamboria is an Indian boxer. She won a bronze medal at the 2021 Asian Boxing Championships in featherweight category, and a bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the lightweight category. Switching back to featherweight class, she participated in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Cynthia Ogunsemilore is a Nigerian boxer. She participated in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Lightweight winning a bronze medal.
Jude Gallagher is an Irish boxer. He competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal in the men's featherweight event. Gallagher defeated Joseph Commey via walkover in the final match in the boxing competition.
The women's 57 kg (featherweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place between 30 July and 10 August 2024. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, with the medal rounds staged at Stade Roland Garros.
Julia Atena Szeremeta is a Polish amateur boxer in the featherweight division.
