Boxing At The 2020 Summer Olympics

Thirteen events were staged, the same number as in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016. However, for the first time since the London Games, the programme has been updated, with the number of men's events reduced by two and the number of women's events increased by the same number.

Boxing at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue	Ryōgoku Kokugikan
Dates	24 July – 8 August 2021
No. of events	13
Competitors	289 from 81 nations
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On 22 May 2019, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that the International Boxing Association (AIBA) had been stripped of the right to organise the tournament, due to "issues in the areas of finance, governance, ethics and refereeing and judging". Boxing will instead be organised by an ad-hoc task force led by Morinari Watanabe, president of the International Gymnastics Federation.

On March 23, 2013, the AIBA instituted significant changes to the format. The World Series of Boxing, AIBA's pro team league which started in 2010, already enabled team members to retain 2012 Olympic eligibility. The newer AIBA Pro Boxing Tournament, consisting of pros who sign 5 year contracts with AIBA and compete on pro cards leading up to the tournament, also provides a pathway for new pros to retain their Olympic eligibility and retain ties with national committees. The elimination of headgear and the adoption of the "10-point must" scoring system further clears the delineation between amateur and pro format.

The number of weight classes for men was reduced from ten to eight, with a featherweight class introduced and events at light-flyweight (introduced in 1968), bantamweight (staged at every Olympics since 1904 bar 1912, when boxing events weren't held) and light-welterweight (introduced in 1952) removed. The women's weight classes saw a corresponding increase from three to five, with featherweight and welterweight categories introduced.

The IOC confirmed weight limits for all 13 classes on 19 June 2019.

Men contested matches in these eight weight classes:

• Flyweight (52kg)
• Featherweight (57kg)
• Lightweight (63 kg)
• Welterweight (69kg)
• Middleweight (75kg)
• Light heavyweight (81kg)
• Heavyweight (91kg)
• Super heavyweight (+91kg)

Women contested matches in these five weight classes:

• Flyweight (51kg)
• Featherweight (57kg)
• Lightweight (60kg)
• Welterweight (69kg)
• Middleweight (75kg)

Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to one athlete in each event. Six places (four men and two women) were reserved for the host nation Japan, while eight further places (five men and three women) were allocated to the Tripartite Invitation Commission.

All other places were allocated through four Continental Olympic Qualification Events (one each for Africa, the Americas, Asia/Oceania and Europe) between January 2020 and June 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed several events for the boxing including impacting the first 3 days of the European Qualification Event. The Americas Qualification Event and World Olympic Qualification Event were then cancelled in 2021.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	4	0	1	5
2	Great Britain	2	2	2	6
3	ROC	1	1	4	6
4	Brazil	1	1	1	3
5	Turkey	1	1	0	2
6	Japan*	1	0	2	3
7	Ireland	1	0	1	2
8	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
10	United States	0	3	1	4
11	Philippines	0	2	1	3
12	China	0	2	0	2
13	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
14	Kazakhstan	0	0	2	2
15	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Ghana	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		13	13	26	52

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Galal Yafai   Great Britain	Carlo Paalam   Philippines	Saken Bibossinov   Kazakhstan
			Ryomei Tanaka   Japan
Featherweight details	Albert Batyrgaziev   ROC	Duke Ragan   United States	Lázaro Álvarez   Cuba
			Samuel Takyi   Ghana
Lightweight details	Andy Cruz   Cuba	Keyshawn Davis   United States	Harry Garside   Australia
			Hovhannes Bachkov   Armenia
Welterweight details	Roniel Iglesias   Cuba	Pat McCormack   Great Britain	Andrey Zamkovoy   ROC
			Aidan Walsh   Ireland
Middleweight details	Hebert Conceição   Brazil	Oleksandr Khyzhniak   Ukraine	Gleb Bakshi   ROC
			Eumir Marcial   Philippines
Light heavyweight details	Arlen López   Cuba	Benjamin Whittaker   Great Britain	Loren Alfonso   Azerbaijan
			Imam Khataev   ROC
Heavyweight details	Julio César La Cruz   Cuba	Muslim Gadzhimagomedov   ROC	Abner Teixeira   Brazil
			David Nyika   New Zealand
Super heavyweight details	Bakhodir Jalolov   Uzbekistan	Richard Torrez   United States	Frazer Clarke   Great Britain
			Kamshybek Kunkabayev   Kazakhstan

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Stoyka Krasteva   Bulgaria	Buse Naz Çakıroğlu   Turkey	Tsukimi Namiki   Japan
			Huang Hsiao-wen   Chinese Taipei
Featherweight details	Sena Irie   Japan	Nesthy Petecio   Philippines	Karriss Artingstall   Great Britain
			Irma Testa   Italy
Lightweight details	Kellie Harrington   Ireland	Beatriz Ferreira   Brazil	Sudaporn Seesondee   Thailand
			Mira Potkonen   Finland
Welterweight details	Busenaz Sürmeneli   Turkey	Gu Hong   China	Lovlina Borgohain   India
			Oshae Jones   United States
Middleweight details	Lauren Price   Great Britain	Li Qian   China	Nouchka Fontijn   Netherlands
			Zemfira Magomedalieva   ROC

• Boxing at the 2018 Asian Games
• Boxing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
• Boxing at the 2019 Pan American Games

• Results book Archived 15 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine