Women Boxing Flyweight 48-51kg XXXII Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 2020 - Sunday, 25th July - Saturday, 7th August 2021 - Gold Medal: Stoyka Krasteva, Bulgaria
Stoyka Krasteva was a 35-year old Bulgarian who had made to the quarter-finals in 2012 but had missed out on the Rio Olympics. In Tokyo she used all the skill and knowledge she had refined over a decade and a half of international competition. She defeated Yuan in the quarter-final, Japanese fighter Tsukimi Namiki in the semis before comfortably out boxing Çakıroğlu for the gold medal.In doing so, Krasteva broke Adams’ record as the oldest female Olympic boxing champion by two years and was her country’s first Olympic gold medallist in the sport since 1996.