Fifteen days left until the start of the Olympic Games
Only 15 days left until the start of the Paris Olympic Games where the final countdown has started in the French capital. Following the Official Opening Ceremony, the Olympic Games will begin in several sports including boxing on its first competition day.
Thirteen events, 248 top boxers, 124 female and 124 male athletes from 69 nations will compete in the boxing event of the Paris Olympics this Summer.
The boxing event of the Olympic Games will also start in the first official competition day on July 27. The finals have been divided into five competition days and will feature in Paris on August 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
The Arena Paris Nord is the competition venue during the preliminaries and the Roland Garros Stadium will be the place of the final phase.
The Asian boxers earned finally 72 quotas during the three qualification events and 16 countries from our continent will represent the Olympic Games in our sport which is the second highest number after Europe.
The Asian Games, the 1st World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event and the 2nd World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event were the quota events for the Asian boxers, three opportunities for all of the National Federations.
The Asian women boxers achieved 37 qualification places for the Paris Olympics and several of them are gold medal contenders. The Asian male boxers took 35 quotas in the qualification events including one wild card and the stars of our continent have strong potential in Paris.
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, China, Chinese Taipei, India, the Philippines, Tajikistan, Jordan, Mongolia, South Korea, DPR Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine will have boxers in the Olympic Games from the Asian continent.
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, China, Chinese Taipei, India, Japan and the Philippines have strong gold medal expectations but all of the Asians will be highly competitive after their top results in the previous main championships.
Most of the Asian boxing countries are in the final phase of the preparations in European training camps and many of them are already in France.
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