NICOLA ADAMS claimed the last remaining major title to elude her after beating Thailand’s Peamwilai Laopeam to be crowned world flyweight champion in Kazakhstan yesterday.

The 33-year-old’s split-decision victory means she will head to Rio as the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion, having also previously picked up European and EU golds.

She said: “If you’d told me in Ningbo in 2008 (when she won her first world medal) that I’d be here now and would have completed the whole set of medals I would probably never have believed you.

“Ningbo was before women’s boxing got into the Olympics and we hardly had anything. We didn’t even have a physio travelling with us and we arrived two days before the tournament with an eight-hour time difference.

Sometimes I wonder how I managed to get through it all.

“But things have changed massively since then, especially since women’s boxing got into the Olympics.”