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Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Field	Value
event	Boxing
games	2008 Summer
image	Boxing 2008.png
image_size	100px
venue	Workers Indoor Arena
dates	9–24 August 2008
competitors	283
nations	77
prev	2004
next	2012

The boxing program of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China was held at the Workers Indoor Arena.

Medals were awarded in eleven events, with each event corresponding to a recognized weight division of male boxers. The 2008 games were the last Olympic boxing competition to exclude women, as the International Olympic Committee approved the introduction of female boxing events for the 2012 London Olympics. The other is baseball.

Like other Olympic combat sports, two bronze medals are awarded; in the case of boxing, both losing semi-finalists receive a bronze medal, with no further play-off. As a result, the quarter-final essentially equates to a bronze medal match, a semi-final to a silver medal match, and the final to a gold medal match. 44 medals are therefore available, 22 of which are bronze medals.

Medal table

Medal summary

Super heavyweight
Roberto Cammarelle	Zhang Zhilei	Vyacheslav Glazkov
David Price

Events

Light flyweight (−48 kg)
Flyweight (48–51 kg)
Bantamweight (51–54 kg)
Featherweight (54–57 kg)
Lightweight (57–60 kg)
Light welterweight (60–64 kg)
Welterweight (64–69 kg)
Middleweight (69–75 kg)
Light heavyweight (75–81 kg)
Heavyweight (81–91 kg)
Super heavyweight (+91 kg)

Qualifying criteria

Main article: Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) were entitled to enter up to 1 athlete in each event. Nine places were reserved for the host nation, from which it would choose 6 places maximum, while the remaining places would be allocated to the Tripartite Invitation Commission. For each athlete from the host NOC who qualified through the AIBA World Amateur Boxing Championships, the host nation lost a guaranteed place.

Qualification events were:

2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships – October 23 – November 3 (8 athletes for −81 kg categories, 4 athletes for +81 kg)
Continental Olympic Qualifying Events (during 2008, two events in Africa, America, Asia and Europe)
2008 Oceania Boxing Championships

The quota awarded to each of the continents is as follows:

Event	Africa	Asia	Europe	America	Oceania	Host/Invitation	TOTAL
Light Fly (−48 kg)	6	6	8	6	1	1	28
Fly (48–51 kg)	6	6	8	6	1	1	28
Bantam (51–54 kg)	6	6	8	6	1	1	28
Feather (54–57 kg)	6	6	8	6	1	1	28
Light (57–60 kg)	6	5	9	6	1	1	28
Light Welter (60–64 kg)	6	5	9	6	1	1	28
Welter (64–69 kg)	6	5	9	6	1	1	28
Middle (69–75 kg)	6	5	9	6	1	1	28
Light Heavy (75–81 kg)	6	5	9	6	1	1	28
Heavy (81–91 kg)	3	2	7	3	1	–	16
Super Heavy (+91 kg)	3	2	7	3	1	–	16

** Two additional places will be awarded by Tripartite Invitation Commission, so the athlete quota will be 286*

Participating nations

References

Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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