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Boxing At The 2024 Summer Olympics
The boxing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 10 August. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Parc des Expositions de Villepinte, Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, Villepinte, with the medal rounds (semifinals and finals) staged at the Stade Roland Garros. The boxing program for 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris 2024 featured the same number of weight categories as those in the previous three editions, consisting of thirteen in total. According 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 weight category contrary to the women's side's increase 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 edition. In June 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) barred the International Boxing Association's (IBA) rights to run and organize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightweight
Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing (sport), rowing. Boxing Professional boxing The lightweight division is over 130 pounds (59 kilograms) and up to 135 pounds (61.2 kilograms) boxing weight classes, weight class in the sport of boxing. Notable lightweight boxers include Henry Armstrong, Ken Buchanan, Tony Canzoneri, Pedro Carrasco, Joel Casamayor, Al Davis (boxer), Al "Bummy" Davis, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Durán, Joe Gans, Artur Grigorian, Benny Leonard, Ray Mancini, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Juan Manuel Márquez, Sugar Shane Mosley, Miguel Ángel González (boxer), Miguel Ángel González, Carlos Ortiz (boxer), Carlos Ortiz, Katie Taylor, Edwin Valero, Len Wickwar, Pernell Whitaker, Manny Pacquiao and Ike Williams (boxer), Ike Williams. Current world champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of May 14, 2025. Keys: : Current ''The Ring (magazine), The Ring'' world champion = ''BoxRec'' = As of May 19, 2025. Longest reigning world lightw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 92 Kg
The men's 92 kg (heavyweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place between 28 July and 9 August 2024. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Parc des Expositions de Villepinte, Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, Villepinte, with the medal rounds (semifinals and finals) staged at Stade Roland Garros. Background The defending champion Julio César La Cruz lost to the eventual silver medalist Loren Alfonso, the 2020 silver medalist Muslim Gadzhimagomedov did not participate because IOC barred the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) from participation due to war in Ukraine. One of the 2020 bronze medalists, David Nyika, turned professional and did not participate, and another one, Abner Teixeira, moved to a different wight category. Qualification Each NOC could send one boxer to the event. Competition format Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. The competition began with a preliminary round, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 80 Kg
The men's 80 kg (middleweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place between 27 July and 7 August 2024. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, with the medal rounds (semifinals and finals) staged at Stade Roland Garros. Background This was be the 27th appearance of the men's middleweight event. The event appeared at the first Olympic boxing tournament in 1904 and has been held at every Games with boxing (that is, excluding 1912) since. The middleweight class remains at the 69–75 kg range it has used since the 2004 Games. The defending champion Hebert Conceição turned professional and did not participate, the 2020 silver medalist Oleksandr Khyzhniak won the competition, one of the 2020 bronze medalists, Eumir Marcial, lost to Turabek Khabibullaev, and another one, Gleb Bakshi Gleb Sergeyevich Bakshi (, ; born 12 November 1995) is a Russian and former Ukrainian boxer of Serbian descent. He is an Honored Master of Sports of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 71 Kg
The men's 71 kg (welterweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place between 28 July and 9 August 2024. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, with the medal rounds (semifinals and finals) staged at Stade Roland Garros. Background This was the 26th appearance of the men's welterweight event. The event appeared at the first Olympic boxing tournament in 1904, was not held in 1908, and has been held at every Games with boxing (that is, excluding 1912) since, beginning with 1920. The maximum weight for the welterweight class has been 69 kg since 2004 and remains there for 2020; the removal of the light-welterweight class moved the lower bound of welterweight from 64 kg to 63 kg. Defending champion Roniel Iglesias Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo (born 14 August 1988) is a Cuban boxer, best known for winning the junior world title at lightweight in 2006, a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and a gold at the 2012 Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 63
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to western boxing, in which only fists are involved, it has developed in different ways in different geographical areas and cultures of the World. In global terms, "boxing" today is also a set of combat sports focused on striking, in which two opponents face each other in a fight using at least their fists, and possibly involving other actions, such as kicks, elbow strikes, knee strikes, and headbutts, depending on the rules. Some of these variants are the bare-knuckle boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Lethwei, savate, and Sanda (sport), sanda. Boxing techniques have been incorporated into many martial arts, Military education and training, military systems, and oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 57 Kg
The men's 57 kg (featherweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place between 28 July and 10 August 2024. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, with the medal rounds (semifinals and finals) staged at Stade Roland Garros. Background This was the 25th appearance of the men's featherweight event. This event made the debut in 1904 and held every event in Olympic boxing (excluded from 1912) until 2008, In 2012 and 2016, there was no featherweight class, in 2020 the featherweight returned and bantamweight was eliminated. With no bantamweight, the lower end of the featherweight drops to 52 kg; the maximum remains 57 kg. Albert Batyrgaziev was the reigning champion, but he did not participate because IOC barred the Russian Olympic Committee due to Russian invasion of Ukraine. The 2020 silver medalist Duke Ragan and the bronze medalists Samuel Takyi and Lázaro Álvarez did not participate. Abdumalik Khalokov became the 2024 Olympic ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 51 Kg
The men's 51 kg (flyweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place between 28 July and 8 August 2024. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Parc des Expositions de Villepinte, Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, Villepinte, with the medal rounds (semifinals and finals) staged at Stade Roland Garros. Background This was the 25th appearance of men's flyweight, since Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics, 1904 except 1908 Summer Olympics, 1908, and 1920 Summer Olympics, twelve years later, returning of this category. Galal Yafai was the defending Olympic champion, but he did not qualify. The 2020 silver medalist Carlo Paalam upgraded from flyweight to featherweight (57 kg). One of the 2020 bronze medalists, Ryomei Tanaka, did not qualify, while the other bronze medalist, Saken Bibossinov, beat Samet Gümüş 0-5, but lost to Hasanboy Dusmatov, the eventual champion. Qualification Each NOC could send one boxer to the event. * 2 places at Boxing at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Olympic Committee
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and the training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies. National Olympic Committees As of 2023, there are 206 National Olympic Committees. These include each of the 193 member states of the United Nations, one United Nations General Assembly observers#Non-member observers, UN observer state (Palestine Olympic Committee, Palestine), two list of states with limited recognition, states without UN recognition (Olympic Committee of Kosovo, Kosovo and Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee, Taiwan) and one associated state of New Zealand (the Cook Islands Sports and National O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middleweight
Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above and up to . Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the Bare-knuckle boxing, bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler (boxer), Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867. Chandler won, becoming known as the American middleweight champion. The first middleweight fight with gloves ''may'' have been between George Fulljames and Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey (no relation to the more famous heavyweight Jack Dempsey). Current world champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of April 29, 2025. Keys: : Current ''The Ring (magazine), The Ring'' world champion =BoxRec= As of , . Longest reigning world middleweight champions Below is a list of longest reigning middleweight champions in boxing measured by the individual's lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bantamweight
Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports and weightlifting. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class is derived from Bantam (poultry), bantam chickens. Brazilian jiu-jitsu weight classes, Brazilian jiu-jitsu has an equivalent Rooster weight. Boxing The first title fight with gloves was between Chappie Moran and Ray Lewis in 1889. At that time, the limit for this weight class was 110 pounds. In 1910, however, the British settled on a limit of 118. From 2018 to 2019, a 8 men tournament called World Boxing Super Series was held to find the best bantamweight in the world. The tournament was won by Naoya Inoue, who defeated Nonito Donaire in the final. On December 13, 2022, Naoya Inoue became the first undisputed champion of the division in the four-belt era. Current world champions Current ''The Ring'' world rankings As of June 8, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Heavyweight
Super heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and bodybuilding, competitive bodybuilding. Boxing In amateur boxing, the super heavyweight division is a weight class division for fighters weighing in excess of 91 kilograms (200 pounds). Introduced for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the division is the amateur equivalent of the heavyweight division in professional boxing. The super heavyweight division was introduced because the general increase in the weight of top heavyweights throughout the 20th century meant that the heavyweight division became excessively broad, with the smaller men having little chance of competing effectively. Therefore, the bigger men were split off into the new super heavyweight division. Professional boxing also made this split, but instead of renaming the unlimited division, it introduced the Cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight division for the smaller heavyweights, and continued to call the unlimited division heavyweight. In the International Kickboxi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
