Natasha Jonas believes that future generations of British female boxers will owe a debt of gratitude to the current crop.
The 30-year-old lightweight became the first female Brit to compete at the Olympic Games in London two years ago, while women's boxing has also been included in the Commonwealth Games for the first time this year.
"I always thought the biggest accolade would be to box for England and when I achieved that I thought it was as far as I was going to go," Jonas is quoted as saying by The Guardian. "But obviously in 2009, when they decided women's boxing would be included in the Olympics, it was a great moment, and now it is happening again with the Commonwealth Games.
"It is nice to know we are going down in the history books. A lot of girls will come after us and win medals, but we will always be the first. All this wasn't there when we started. But we fought for the right and we paved the way for all the other girls who are going to come up after us."
Jonas will begin her Commonwealths campaign on Tuesday when she takes on Australia's Shelley Watts.
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