Skye Nicolson
Skye Brittany Nicolson (born 27 August 1995) is an Australian professional boxer. She is the reigning WBC featherweight world champion. As an amateur, she competed in the featherweight event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal. Nicolson competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In her first bout in the women's Feather (54–57 kg) preliminaries she beat Im Ae-ji from Republic of Korea on points. She was beaten in the quarterfinals by Kariss Artingstall from Great Britain.
Nicolson was born at Logan Hospital in Meadowbrook, Queensland. Her father is Scottish-born Allan, originally from Glasgow, and her mother is English-born Pat from London. Nicolson grew up on the Gold Coast and attended Our Lady's College throughout her upbringing. She started boxing training at 12 years of age in the Gold Coast suburb of Yatala at the Jamie Nicolson Memorial Gym, which is named after her late brother. Notable students she grew up training alongside in the same Yatala gym include future world champions Cherneka Johnson and Che Kenneally. Her brothers, Jamie and Gavin, were killed in a car crash a year before she was born. Jamie was one of the greatest amateur boxers in Australian history who competed at the 1992 Olympic Games and won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
