2024 Boxing Olympics: Finals Currently in Progress

The year 2024 brought along a lot of exciting sporting tournaments and championships but of course, there is one among them that attracted the attention of even those who don’t normally consider themselves sport fans. Yes, we are talking about the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games!

From day one, the 2024 Olympics had us glued to the screens, or if you were one of the lucky ones – to the stadium seats, watching, cheering, and feeling extremely proud whether it was for your national team or just your favourite athlete. With 10,714 athletes from 206 nations competing in 32 sports that included 48 disciplines, everyone found something they enjoyed.

But now it is time to say goodbye until 2028. With only a few days left until the closing ceremony, many sports have completed their run at the 2024 Olympic Games, while several others are all set for their final rounds. Boxing is one of the sports that still has to conduct a couple of events before all the medalists can be officially announced. Let’s take a look at the 2024 boxing Olympics finals!

Boxing: Road to the Olympics 

The history of boxing goes far back in time than one might imagine. Its exact origins are unknown, but the first records of a sport quite resembling modern boxing were found in Egypt and Sumer. Some historians assume that it later spread to Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia.

Known as “pygmachia” (translated as “fist fighting”), boxing was a well developed and highly popular sport in Ancient Greece. The records of it being included in the Ancient Olympic Games date back to 688 BCE, the year when the 23rd Olympic Games took place. In that time, athletes would put leather thongs on their fists and forearms for protection against the opponent’s hits.

The Romans adopted boxing from the Greeks but after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Western world seemed to have forgotten about boxing as there were no records of it to be found. That is, until the 17th century when boxing made a comeback in England. And though the first records of public fights didn’t appear until 1880, by that time boxing was a well established sport with set rules.

With its growing popularity, boxing made it into the Olympic programme by 1904, the third edition of the modern Olympic Games that took place in St. Louis, United States. Every subsequent edition of the Games had boxing as a permanent part of the programme. The only exception were the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, as the sport was banned in Sweden back then.

Notwithstanding its popularity, these days boxing is once again facing the possibility to be excluded from the Olympic programme, this time universally. The International Olympic Committee has expressed its dissatisfaction with the International Boxing Association on multiple occasions. In June 2022 this resulted in the Association being banned from conducting Olympic qualifications and organizing the tournament. The reason cited for this decision was “irregularity issues” the Association has regarding governance, finance, refereeing, and some others.

2024 Boxing Olympics: Schedules, Weight Categories, and Format

As there is a solid possibility that the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games will be the last time boxing appears in the tournament, the current events attract even more attention. With a number of weight categories in both men’s and women’s competition, boxing had one of the busiest schedules at the Olympics. 

Events were scheduled from 27 July to 10 August, with the preliminaries taking place at the Arena Paris Nord convention centre. For the semifinals and finals athletes will move to the famed Roland Garros Stadium that hosts the French Open tournament in tennis.

This year marked the twelfth time women’s boxing would be featured at the Olympics. From the 2012 London Summer Olympics, when women were presented in three weight categories to 2024 Paris where they fight in six categories, the gender parity in boxing continues to develop. 

However, some experts don’t appreciate the fact that this equality occurs because men’s categories are being reduced in numbers. If in 1988 Seoul Olympics boxing was represented with 12 weight categories for men, by 2024 this number was cut down to 7. Correspondingly, fewer male boxers were able to participate in the tournament.

The 2024 boxing Olympic tournament included the following weight categories:

Men’s Weight Categories

• 51 kg
• 57 kg
• 63.5kg
• 71 kg
• 80 kg
• 92 kg
• +92 kg

Women’s Weight Categories

• 50 kg
• 54 kg
• 57 kg
• 60 kg
• 66 kg
• 75 kg

2024 Boxing Olympics: Qualification Process

After the International Olympic Committee (IOC) barred the International Boxing Association (IBA) from conducting the qualifying events for the upcoming Olympic Games, they created a new mechanism. Based on this new system, athletes had to participate in continental multisport events to secure Olympic quotas. In order to be considered for the 2024 Olympics, boxing athletes had to participate in one of these events:

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could only send one boxer per weight category. The total number of allocated berths was 248 and was equally distributed between men and women. All in all, 68 National Olympic Committees qualified to send their athletes to 2024 Paris. See the full list with the number of athletes per NOC:

• Algeria (5)
• Armenia (1)
• Australia (12)
• Azerbaijan (5)
• Belgium (3)
• Brazil (10)
• Bulgaria (5)
• Canada (2)
• Cape Verde (2)
• China (8)
• Colombia (5)
• Croatia (1)
• Cuba (5)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (2)
• Denmark (1)
• Dominican Republic (3)
• Ecuador (3)
• Egypt (3)
• Finland (1)
• France (8)
• Georgia (2)
• Germany (2)
• Great Britain (6)
• Haiti (1)
• Hungary (3)
• India (6)
• Ireland (10)
• Italy (8)
• Japan (2)
• Jordan (3)
• Kazakhstan (10)
• Kosovo (1)
• Kyrgyzstan (1)
• Mali (1)
• Mexico (4)
• Mongolia (2)
• Montenegro (1)
• Morocco (3)
• Mozambique (2)
• Netherlands (1)
• Nigeria (3)
• North Korea (2)
• Norway (2)
• Palestine (1)
• Panama (1)
• Papua New Guinea (1)
• Philippines (5)
• Poland (5)
• Puerto Rico (2)
• Refugee Olympic Team (2)
• Romania (1)
• Samoa (1)
• Serbia (3)
• Slovakia (1)
• South Korea (2)
• Spain (6)
• Sweden (2)
• Chinese Taipei (6)
• Tajikistan (3)
• Thailand (8)
• Tonga (1)
• Tunisia (1)
• Turkey (7)
• Ukraine (3)
• United States (8)
• Uzbekistan (11)
• Venezuela (2)
• Vietnam (2)
• Zambia (2)

2024 Boxing Olympics: Finals

The final events in all boxing weight categories both for men and women were scheduled between Tuesday, 6 August and Saturday, 10 August. At the time of publication of this article, the following categories are still waiting for the names of the silver and gold medalists: 

Finals taking place on Friday, 9 August:

• men’s welterweight (71 kg)
• men’s heavyweight (92 kg)
• women’s flyweight (50 kg)
• women’s welterweight (66 kg)

Finals taking place on Saturday, 10 August:

• men’s featherweight (57 kg) 
• men’s super heavyweight (+92 kg)
• women’s featherweight (57 kg) 
• women’s middleweight (75 kg)

While we are waiting for these events, take a look at the boxing winners that have already secured their medals at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.

Men’s Events

Women’s Events

Watch this space for the upcoming tournaments and names of the winners!

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