While women's boxing can loosely trace its beginnings to ... Couch wins the right to "fight" and in Streatham, UK, on Nov. 25, 1998, stops German Simona Lukic in the second round.

LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland : Franziska Preuss displayed nerves of steel to win a gold medal for Germany in the women's 10km pursuit at the International Biathlon Union World Championships on Sunday.