Lesley Sackey, 27-years-old, is the Amateur Boxing Association National welterweight women’s champion, and in 2008 she won the gold medal at the European Championships. She recently took part in the BBC Three series, Last Women Standing – a show that sends participants to compete against the world’s most remote tribes in their own rituals. Now she is focusing on training, qualifying and competing in the 2012 Olympics.
Lesley told press, “As corny as it sounds, boxing chose me. Growing up as a teenager I wasn’t off the rails, but I used to smoke and drink. As I got older I thought, I wanna get fit, but I hated the gym, so my dad’s friend, said, you know, why don’t you try the boxing club on the High Road? And I went and I remember talking to people and they’d be going like four, five times a day, and then I became one of those people!”
Now, four years later, her quest to become fit, has grown into a way of life. 