The Commission
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Savannah Marshall b.1991
Savannah Marshall began boxing at Hartlepool’s Headland Boxing Club at the age of twelve.
Undefeated at junior and senior level she held both English and European middleweight titles. With the inclusion of women’s boxing for the first time in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, Marshall is one of seven elite women boxers selected to receive funding and specialist training at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Marshall, who regularly spars with the men’s squad, won silver at the 2010 World Championships and gold at the London 2012 Olympic test event.
‘My friends, who I grew up with, are supportive. I’ve got a friend who, if I ever wanted to take drugs or go out drinking, she’d probably slap me.’ Savannah Marshall
