The Olympic Games will open with 18 preliminary contests tomorrow
The Technical Meeting and the Official Draw concluded in the Paris Olympics where eighteen bouts will be held in the first competition day from 15:30 local time on July 27.
Thirteen weight categories, 248 top boxers, 124 female and 124 male athletes from 69 nations will compete in the boxing event of the Paris Olympics.
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 and all of them were there in the sport entries check.
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.
Huang Hsiao Wen is a two-time World Champion from Chinese Taipei but she had to compete in the last 2nd World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event to earn the flight ticket to Paris. The tall and technician boxer will now meet Montenegro’s young Bojana Gojkovic in the opening bout of the entire Paris Olympics.
Jutamas Jitpong, the Tokyo Olympics quarter-finalist and the World silver medallist, will also meet a boxer from the Balkan region first, Serbia’s Sara Cirkovic. The Thai bantamweight (54kg) hopeful is one of the medal contenders in Paris and she has also strong expectations as Huang Hsiao Wen in this category.
Vietnam qualified two boxers for the Paris Olympics which is the same strong performance from their side as in the previous Tokyo edition. Vo Thi Kim Anh has brilliant technical skills and she is the favourite against India’s young Preeti at the Round of 32 in the women’s bantamweight (54kg).
There will be a unique Asian contest in the first session tomorrow between Chinese Taipei’s Wu Shih Yi and South Korea’s Oh Yeon Ji at the women’s lightweight (60kg). The Korean veteran is a multiple Asian Champion but Wu earned also several medals in the continental events and Paris is her second Olympic Games.
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