Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's middleweight
The women's middleweight boxing competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 5 to 9 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. For the first time at an Olympic Games, the 10 men's boxing events were joined by three women's events: flyweight, lightweight and middleweight. Seventeen-year-old American Claressa Shields won gold in the women's middleweight, defeating Russia's veteran thirty-three-year-old Nadezda Torlopova by a score of 19–12 in the final. Her victory will be depicted in the film "Flint Strong