FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Boxing - Women's Featherweight - Semifinal - KKG - Kokugikan Arena - Tokyo, Japan - July 31, 2021. Irma Testa of Italy in action against Nesthy Petecio of the Philippines REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer Irma Testa has come out as gay, saying her success at the Tokyo Games earlier this year gave her the strength to make her sexual orientation public.
The 23-year-old boxer won bronze in the women's featherweight category at Tokyo 2020. She previously competed at Rio 2016 where she lost in the quarter-finals while she also won gold in the 2019 European Championships.
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