Charley Davison
British boxer (born 1994)
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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.
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 January 1994 | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | Flyweight, Bantamweight | ||||||||||||||
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| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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] 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]