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Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Boxing
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Venue Riocentro – Pavilion 6
Dates 6–21 August
Competitors 286 (250 men, 36 women)
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Boxing at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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Men Women
49 kg 51 kg
52 kg 60 kg
56 kg 75 kg
60 kg
64 kg
69 kg
75 kg
81 kg
91 kg
+91 kg

The boxing tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Pavilion 6 ofRiocentro.

Competition format[edit]

On March 23, 2013, the Amateur International Boxing Association 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.[2][3]

Similar to 2012 format, men competed in the following ten events:

As for the women, they were eligible to compete in the following three events:

Qualifying criteria[edit]

Main article: Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to one athlete in each event. Six places (five men and one woman) were reserved for the host nation Brazil, while the remaining places were allocated to the Tripartite Invitation Commission. Because non-AIBA professional boxers were eligible to compete for the first time at the Olympics, a total of thirty-seven places had been reserved and thereby distributed to pros; twenty were qualified through the AIBA Pro Boxing Series with two for each event, while seventeen through the World Series of Boxing. Each continent had a quota of places to be filled through the two amateur and semi-pro league tournaments.[4]

Qualification events were:

  • 2014–2015 World Series of Boxing (WSB) – The two top ranked boxers at the end of the 2014–2015 season in each weight category (except light flyweight, heavyweight, and super heavyweight with one each).[4]
  • 2014–2015 AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) World Ranking – The champion and world-ranked top challenger in each weight category of the APB World Ranking at the end of the first cycle in September 2015.[4]
  • 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships – Doha, Qatar, 5–18 October – The top three boxers from five weight categories (bantamweight, lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, and middleweight), the gold and silver medalists from three divisions (light flyweight, flyweight, and light heavyweight), and the champions in two heaviest classes (heavyweight and super heavyweight).[4]
  • 2016 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships – Astana, Kazakhstan – The top four boxers in each weight category.[4]
  • 2016 APB and WSB Olympic Qualifier – The top three of the remaining boxers in each of the eight categories, and the champion in two heaviest classes.[4]
  • 2016 AIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament
  • 2016 AIBA Continental Olympic Qualifiers (both men and women)

Competition schedule[edit]

There were two sessions of competition on most days of the 2016 Olympics Boxing program, an afternoon session (A), starting at 11:00 BRT, and an evening session (E), starting at 17:00 BRT. Starting on August 17, days contained only one session, beginning at 14:00 BRT.

P Preliminary rounds ¼ Quarterfinals ½ Semifinals F Final
Date → Sat 6 Sun 7 Mon 8 Tue 9 Wed 10 Thu 11 Fri 12 Sat 13 Sun 14 Mon 15 Tue 16 Wed 17 Thu 18 Fri 19 Sat 20 Sun 21
Event ↓ A E A E A E A E A E A E A E A E A E A E A E A A A A A
Men’s light flyweight P P ¼ ½ F
Men’s flyweight P P ¼ ½ F
Men’s bantamweight P P P ¼ ½ F
Men’s lightweight P P P ¼ ½ F
Men’s light welterweight P P P ¼ ½ F
Men’s welterweight P P P ¼ ½ F
Men’s middleweight P P P P ½ F
Men’s light heavyweight P P P P ¼ ½ F
Men’s heavyweight P P ¼ ½ F
Men’s super heavyweight P P ¼ ½ F
Women’s flyweight P ¼ ½ F
Women’s lightweight P ¼ ½ F
Women’s middleweight P ¼ ½ F

Participation[edit]

Participating nations[edit]

Medalists[edit]

Men[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Light flyweight
details		 Hasanboy Dusmatov
 Uzbekistan		 Yuberjén Martínez
 Colombia		 Joahnys Argilagos
 Cuba
Nico Hernández
 United States
Flyweight
details		 Shakhobidin Zoirov
 Uzbekistan		 Misha Aloyan
 Russia		 Yoel Finol
 Venezuela
Hu Jianguan
 China
Bantamweight
details		 Robeisy Ramírez
 Cuba		 Shakur Stevenson
 United States		 Vladimir Nikitin
 Russia
Murodjon Akhmadaliev
 Uzbekistan
Lightweight
details		 Robson Conceição
 Brazil		 Sofiane Oumiha
 France		 Lázaro Álvarez
 Cuba
Dorjnyambuugiin Otgondalai
 Mongolia
Light welterweight
details		 Fazliddin Gaibnazarov
 Uzbekistan		 Lorenzo Sotomayor
 Azerbaijan		 Vitaly Dunaytsev
 Russia
Artem Harutyunyan
 Germany
Welterweight
details		 Daniyar Yeleussinov
 Kazakhstan		 Shakhram Giyasov
 Uzbekistan		 Mohammed Rabii
 Morocco
Souleymane Cissokho
 France
Middleweight
details		 Arlen López
 Cuba		 Bektemir Melikuziev
 Uzbekistan		 Misael Rodríguez
 Mexico
Kamran Shakhsuvarly
 Azerbaijan
Light heavyweight
details		 Julio César La Cruz
 Cuba		 Adilbek Niyazymbetov
 Kazakhstan		 Mathieu Bauderlique
 France
Joshua Buatsi
 Great Britain
Heavyweight
details		 Evgeny Tishchenko
 Russia		 Vasiliy Levit
 Kazakhstan		 Rustam Tulaganov
 Uzbekistan
Erislandy Savón
 Cuba
Super heavyweight
details		 Tony Yoka
 France		 Joe Joyce
 Great Britain		 Filip Hrgović
 Croatia
Ivan Dychko
 Kazakhstan

Women[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
details		 Nicola Adams
 Great Britain		 Sarah Ourahmoune
 France		 Ren Cancan
 China
Ingrit Valencia
 Colombia
Lightweight
details		 Estelle Mossely
 France		 Yin Junhua
 China		 Mira Potkonen
 Finland
Anastasia Belyakova
 Russia
Middleweight
details		 Claressa Shields
 United States		 Nouchka Fontijn
 Netherlands		 Dariga Shakimova
 Kazakhstan
Li Qian
 China

Medal summary[edit]

Medal table[edit]

Key

*   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Uzbekistan 3 2 2 7
2 Cuba 3 0 3 6
3 France 2 2 2 6
4 Kazakhstan 1 2 2 5
5 Russia 1 1 3 5
6 Great Britain 1 1 1 3
United States 1 1 1 3
8 Brazil 1 0 0 1
9 China 0 1 3 4
10 Azerbaijan 0 1 1 2
Colombia 0 1 1 2
12 Netherlands 0 1 0 1
13 Croatia 0 0 1 1
Finland 0 0 1 1
Germany 0 0 1 1
Mexico 0 0 1 1
Mongolia 0 0 1 1
Morocco 0 0 1 1
Venezuela 0 0 1 1
Total 13 13 26 52

Controversy[edit]

On 17 August, The New York Times reported that the AIBA had removed several referees and judges after “less than a handful of the decisions were not at the level expected”. It was reported that, in response to allegations of corruption, “AIBA invited people with evidence about bribing judges to step forward.” The rules of the competition did not allow any results to be appealed, and the AIBA has stated that all the decisions will stand.[5]

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