EIS, Sheffield - 18th June 2014. Commonwealth Games England have announced the boxing team that will compete for England at the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (23 July – 3 August 2014).

The team is made-up of eight men and three women who will make history by competing in the first ever Commonwealth Games to feature female boxing.

The three female selections are 2012 Olympic flyweight (51kg) champion, Nicola Adams, 2014 European championship silver medallist, Natasha Jonas, who will box at lightweight (60kg), and the 2012 world champion, Savannah Marshall, at middleweight (75kg).

The male picks include the 2013 world championship bronze medallist, Antony Fowler, at middleweight and two European championship bronze medallists in Charlie Edwards at flyweight (52kg) and Joe Joyce at super-heavyweight (91kg).

The team is completed by bantamweight (56kg), Qais Ashfaq, lightweight (60kg), Pat McCormack, light-welterweight (64kg), Sam Maxwell, welterweight (69kg), Scott Fitzgerald and heavyweight (91kg), Warren Baister.