The Sun has launched its International Women’s Day competition with Nicola Adams 

The Sun has launched its International Women’s Day competition with Nicola Adams. For the competition, ten deserving candidates are in with the chance of winning one of 10 £1,000 grants each to invest into their local sports club. The winners will be the nominees who best demonstrate why they deserve to win the prize for their work with grassroots women's sports, and they will be selected by a panel of International Women’s Day judges.

In honour of the coaches who backed her since she started boxing, former British professional boxer Nicola Adams is backing The Sun’s campaign to highlight the grassroots heroes who go to extraordinary lengths in order to promote women’s sport.

As a teenager, Nicola Adams was usually the only girl in the boxing gym, and was often ridiculed for her dream of one day becoming an Olympic champion. At the time, women’s boxing was banned in England.

Despite the hurdles she faced, Nicola achieved her ambitions at the London 2012 Olympics — the first to allow women to box — when she became the first female boxer to win gold. She followed that up four years later with another Olympic win in Rio, which made her the first female boxer to retain an Olympic title.

Read more about Nicola’s story and enter The Sun’s competition here, or share with someone you know who might be suitable for the award.

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