Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Boxing at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue	Arena Paris Nord (prelims phase) Roland Garros Stadium (final phase)
Dates	27 July – 10 August 2024
No. of events	13 (7 men, 6 women)
Competitors	248 from 68 nations
← 2020

The boxing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 10 August. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, with the medal rounds (semifinals and finals) staged at the Stade Roland Garros.

The boxing program for Paris 2024 featured the same amount of weight categories as those in the previous three editions, consisting of thirteen in total. Pursuant to the International Olympic Committee's mission of attaining full gender equality, the program continued to remain updated with the number of men's weight classes reduced by one contrary to the women's side's increased by one weight category for a total of 7 men's and 6 women's events compared to 8 men’s and 5 women’s at the previous event.

In June 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) barred the International Boxing Association's (IBA) rights to run and organize the tournament due to "continuing irregularity issues in the areas of finance, governance, ethics, refereeing, and judging". Hence, the IOC executive board established and ratified a new qualification system for Paris 2024 that would witness the boxers obtained the quota spots through the continental multisport events, such as Asian Games, European Games, Pan American Games, African Games, and the Pacific Games.

Uzbekistan topped the medal count in boxing, winning five gold medals (all men's). China was second with three (all women's).

Competition format

Pursuant to the IOC's mission of attaining full gender equality, Paris 2024 instituted another significant change to the boxing program, with the number of weight categories for men reduced from eight to seven, ultimately removing the Middleweight division. On the other hand, the women's weight classes witnessed a corresponding rise from five to six with the bantamweight category introduced.

The male boxers contested matches in these seven weight classes:

• Flyweight (51 kg)
• Featherweight (57 kg)
• Lightweight (63.5 kg)
• Welterweight (71 kg)
• Light heavyweight (80 kg)
• Heavyweight (92 kg)
• Super heavyweight (+92 kg)

The female boxers contested matches in these six weight classes:

• Flyweight (50 kg)
• Bantamweight (54 kg)
• Featherweight (57 kg)
• Lightweight (60 kg)
• Welterweight (66 kg)
• Middleweight (75 kg)

Qualification

A total of 248 quota places, with an equal distribution between men and women, were available for eligible boxers to compete in Paris 2024, almost forty fewer overall than those in Tokyo 2020. Qualified NOCs could only send one boxer in each weight category. The host nation France reserved a maximum of six automatic quota places to be equally distributed between men and women in their respective weight categories, while nine places (four for men and five for women) were entitled to eligible NOCs interested to have their boxers compete in Paris 2024 as abided by the Universality principle.

The qualification period commenced in five regional multisport events (African Games, Asian Games, European Games, Pacific Games, and the Pan American Games), set to be served as continental qualifying meets, where a total of 139 spots were assigned to a specific number of highest-ranked boxers in each weight category. Following the continental phase, the remainder of the total quota were decided in two world qualification tournaments organized by the IOC in the initial half of the 2024 season, offering another batch of spots available to the highest-ranked eligible boxers in each weight division.

Competition schedule

Participating nations

248 boxers from 68 NOCs qualified.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Uzbekistan	5	0	0	5
2	China	3	2	0	5
3	Chinese Taipei	1	0	2	3
4	Cuba	1	0	1	2
5	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Ireland	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
8	France*	0	2	1	3
	Turkey	0	2	1	3
10	Kazakhstan	0	1	1	2
	Spain	0	1	1	2
12	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Panama	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
17	Australia	0	0	2	2
	Dominican Republic	0	0	2	2
	Philippines	0	0	2	2
20	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Cape Verde	0	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	North Korea	0	0	1	1
	Refugee Olympic Team	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 NOCs)		13	13	26	52

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (51 kg) details	Hasanboy Dusmatov  Uzbekistan	Billal Bennama  France	Junior Alcántara  Dominican Republic
			Daniel Varela de Pina  Cape Verde
Featherweight (57 kg) details	Abdumalik Khalokov  Uzbekistan	Munarbek Seiitbek Uulu  Kyrgyzstan	Charlie Senior  Australia
			Javier Ibáñez  Bulgaria
Lightweight (63.5) kg details	Erislandy Álvarez  Cuba	Sofiane Oumiha  France	Wyatt Sanford  Canada
			Lasha Guruli  Georgia
Welterweight (71 kg) details	Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev  Uzbekistan	Marco Verde  Mexico	Omari Jones  United States
			Lewis Richardson  Great Britain
Light heavyweight (80 kg) details	Oleksandr Khyzhniak  Ukraine	Nurbek Oralbay  Kazakhstan	Cristian Pinales  Dominican Republic
			Arlen López  Cuba
Heavyweight (92 kg) details	Lazizbek Mullojonov  Uzbekistan	Loren Alfonso  Azerbaijan	Enmanuel Reyes  Spain
			Davlat Boltaev  Tajikistan
Super heavyweight (+92 kg) details	Bakhodir Jalolov  Uzbekistan	Ayoub Ghadfa  Spain	Nelvie Tiafack  Germany
			Djamili-Dini Aboudou Moindze  France

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (50 kg) details	Wu Yu  China	Buse Naz Çakıroğlu  Turkey	Nazym Kyzaibay  Kazakhstan
			Aira Villegas  Philippines
Bantamweight (54 kg) details	Chang Yuan  China	Hatice Akbaş  Turkey	Pang Chol-mi  North Korea
			Im Ae-ji  South Korea
Featherweight (57 kg) details	Lin Yu-ting  Chinese Taipei	Julia Szeremeta  Poland	Esra Yıldız  Turkey
			Nesthy Petecio  Philippines
Lightweight (60 kg) details	Kellie Harrington  Ireland	Yang Wenlu  China	Wu Shih-yi  Chinese Taipei
			Beatriz Ferreira  Brazil
Welterweight (66 kg) details	Imane Khelif  Algeria	Yang Liu  China	Janjaem Suwannapheng  Thailand
			Chen Nien-chin  Chinese Taipei
Middleweight (75 kg) details	Li Qian  China	Atheyna Bylon  Panama	Caitlin Parker  Australia
			Cindy Ngamba  Refugee Olympic Team

See also

• Boxing at the 2022 Asian Games
• Boxing at the 2023 European Games
• Boxing at the 2023 Pan American Games