One month left until the start of the boxing event of the Olympic Games
One month left until the start of the Paris Olympic Games where the final countdown has started in the French capital. 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 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.
Thirteen events, 248 boxers, 124 female and 124 male athletes from nearly 70 nations will compete in the boxing event of the Paris Olympics. The Asian boxers earned 71 quotas during the three qualification events and 15 countries from our continent will represent the Olympic Games in our sport.
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 achieved 34 quotas in the qualification events and the stars of our continent have strong potential in Paris.
The Central Asian region is one of the leaders in our sport, Uzbekistan has finally achieved 11 quotas in boxing. All of their seven male boxers qualified for the Paris Olympics and additionally record number of four women youngsters.
One of the boxing powerhouses, Kazakhstan claimed only two quotas in the Asian Games in Hangzhou but finally their boxers acquired 10 spots for the Paris Olympics. Their full male team like the Uzbeks, all qualified for the Games with three women boxers as well.
Thailand hosted the last qualification event in Bangkok and their boxers had six quotas before the competition. Two of their boxers still succeeded in the 2nd World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event on home soil.
China qualified seven boxers through the Asian Games and their Xu Zichun still managed for them an eighth quota in Bangkok. Her success at the featherweight (57kg) meant that China will have full women’s team in the Olympic Games.
Chinese Taipei returned to the Olympic boxing map with two boxers in 2016 which was increased up to four in the Tokyo Games. Their final performance in the qualification process is a record-breaking six quotas in boxing which is the country’s best ever result.
India had a few difficulties in the qualification process but finally six of their boxers qualified for the Paris Olympics, three from the Bangkok last chance event. Amit Panghal and Lovlina Borgohain both have qualified for their second Olympic Games after Tokyo.
The Philippines produced its best ever Olympic Games in Tokyo with two silver and bronze medals and their strong boxers achieved five quotas for Paris which is their best performance since the Atlanta 1996 edition.
Two promising nations such as Tajikistan and Jordan both qualified impressive number of three boxers for the Paris Olympics. Mizhgona Samadova is Tajikistan’s first qualified female boxer since the London 2012 edition when their Mavzuna Chorieva claimed a fantastic bronze medal.
Mongolia, South Korea, DPR Korea, Japan and Vietnam each qualified 2-2 boxers for the Olympic Games while Kyrgyzstan returns to the event with one boxer after 2016.
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