The battle for Olympic glory in the boxing ring is on at Paris 2024.
In total, 13 gold medals are up for grabs in the French capital, the same number as at the Tokyo Games, but the distribution is different.
At the delayed 2021 event, there were eight men’s weight classes and five women’s pisions.
However, in line with the IOC’s goal of achieving full gender equality, this time there are seven men’s and six women’s categories.
So how does all this work out? Let Jugo Mobile explain.
Olympic boxing weight categories in Paris 2024
Men
- Flyweight (51 kg)
- Featherweight (57 kg)
- Light weight (63.5 kg)
- Welterweight (71 kg)
- Average weight (80 kg)
- Heavyweight (92 kg)
- Super heavyweight (92 kg+)
Women
- Flyweight (50 kg)
- Bantamweight (54 kg)
- Featherweight (57 kg)
- Light weight (60 kg)
- Welterweight (66 kg)
- Average weight (75 kg)
Changes in Olympic boxing for the Paris Olympics
The women’s schedule has been bolstered by the addition of a bantamweight pision, with the featherweight limit slightly reduced from 51kg to 50kg in Tokyo. The women’s welterweight category has also seen changes, from a limit of 69kg to 66kg.
Men’s boxing has effectively lost its light heavyweight pision: the gold medal Muhammad Ali won as Cassius Clay in 1960.
The light-heavyweight gold in Tokyo was contested at 81kg and the most notable change that justifies its absence is that the middleweight limit was moved from 75kg to 80kg in Paris. The lower pision, welterweight, is moved from 69kg to 71kg.
Other pision adjustments mean the 57kg featherweight class is the only men’s category unchanged from Tokyo.
When women’s boxing entered the London 2012 Games, there were only three pisions up for grabs, with Nicola Adams (flyweight) and all-time greats Katie Taylor (lightweight) and Claressa Shields (middleweight) taking gold.
Those same three categories were up for grabs at Rio 2016, with Adams and Shields retaining their titles ahead of the expansion to Tokyo.
