Kenya's Only Female Boxer Crashes Out of Olympics

The country's only female boxer at the London games failed to qualify for the middleweight quarter finals after losing to her Kazakhstan opponent.
  • Kenya:   Andiego's Boxing Dream Bites the Dust

    Capital FM, 5 August 2012

    Kenya's lone female pugilist Elizabeth Andiego saw the opportunity to face her role model boxed into the exit door when she failed to qualify for the middleweight quarters on… Read more »

Boxer Elizabeth Andiego: This was the first time in history that a Kenyan female boxer was competing at the Olympics as th country hoped to widen its medal prospect to the discipline.

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