- Seven men and four women will be in the ring in Japan
- World junior champion Dubois among medal hopefuls
Boxing is likely to be one of the sports which offers Team GB the best opportunity to win medals at the Tokyo Olympics and Wednesday’s announcement of the squad of seven men and four women confirmed its depth and quality. Olympic boxing often resembles a lottery because so much depends on wayward judges and the vagaries of the draw. Yet this squad looks to be at least as strong as its London 2012 counterpart which won five medals.
The GB team then relied heavily on Anthony Joshua, Luke Campbell and Nicola Adams, who all won gold, while the 2021 squad has a much deeper pool of talent. All 11 British fighters in Tokyo can claim to be in medal contention, if they get the right draw, and that was not true of the GB teams in London and then at the Rio Olympics in 2016 when three medals were won.
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Women: Charley Davison (flyweight); Karriss Artingstall (featherweight); Caroline Dubois (lightweight); Lauren Price (middleweight).