Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Agusta 1979, Boxer ta zama mace ta farko ta Burtaniya da ta gudu mita 800 a ƙasa da minti biyu, tare da lokacin 1: 59.05 a Turin. Har yanzu tana ɗaya daga cikin mata uku na Burtaniya, tare da Kirsty Wade da Hannah Ingila, waɗanda suka karya duka minti biyu don mita 800 da minti tara don mita 3000. Ta sami digiri na BSc a Ilimin Jiki da Kimiyyar Wasanni da PGCE a PE & Biology a Jami'ar Loughborough tsakanin 1979 <unk> 1983. A wannan lokacin, ta yi gasa a wasannin Olympic na farko a Moscow 1980, inda ta kai wasan kusa da na karshe na mita 800. A shekarar 1982, ta lashe lambar zinare a gasar tseren mita 1500 na mata a wasannin Commonwealth
a birnin Brisbane.