Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The boxing tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Pavilion 6 of Riocentro.[1]

Boxing
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueRiocentro – Pavilion 6
Dates6–21 August 2016
No. of events13
Competitors286 from 76 nations

Competition format

On March 23, 2013, the Amateur International Boxing Association instituted significant changes to the format. The World Series of Boxing, AIBA's pro team league which started in 2010, already enabled team members to retain 2012 Olympic eligibility. The newer AIBA Pro Boxing Tournament, consisting of pros who sign 5 year contracts with AIBA and compete on pro cards leading up to the tournament, also provides a pathway for new pros to retain their Olympic eligibility and retain ties with national committees. The elimination of headgear and the adoption of the "10-point must" scoring system further clears the delineation between amateur and pro format.[2][3]

Similar to 2012 format, men competed in the following ten events:

As for the women, they were eligible to compete in the following three events:

Qualifying criteria

Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to one athlete in each event. Six places (five men and one woman) were reserved for the host nation Brazil, while the remaining places were allocated to the Tripartite Invitation Commission. Because non-AIBA professional boxers were eligible to compete for the first time at the Olympics, a total of thirty-seven places had been reserved and thereby distributed to pros; twenty were qualified through the AIBA Pro Boxing Series with two for each event, while seventeen through the World Series of Boxing. Each continent had a quota of places to be filled through the two amateur and semi-pro league tournaments.[4]

Qualification events were:

  • 2014–2015 World Series of Boxing (WSB) – The two top ranked boxers at the end of the 2014–2015 season in each weight category (except light flyweight, heavyweight, and super heavyweight with one each).[4]
  • 2014–2015 AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) World Ranking – The champion and world-ranked top challenger in each weight category of the APB World Ranking at the end of the first cycle in September 2015.[4]
  • 2015 AIBA World Boxing ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar, 5–18 October – The top three boxers from five weight categories (bantamweight, lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, and middleweight), the gold and silver medalists from three divisions (light flyweight, flyweight, and light heavyweight), and the champions in two heaviest classes (heavyweight and super heavyweight).[4]
  • 2016 AIBA Women's World Boxing ChampionshipsNur-Sultan, Kazakhstan – The top four boxers in each weight category.[4]
  • 2016 APB and WSB Olympic Qualifier – The top three of the remaining boxers in each of the eight categories, and the champion in two heaviest classes.[4]
  • 2016 AIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament
  • 2016 AIBA Continental Olympic Qualifiers (both men and women)

Competition schedule

There were two sessions of competition on most days of the 2016 Olympics Boxing program, an afternoon session (A), starting at 11:00 BRT, and an evening session (E), starting at 17:00 BRT. Starting on August 17, days contained only one session, beginning at 14:00 BRT.

PPreliminary rounds ¼Quarterfinals ½Semifinals FFinal
Date →Sat 6Sun 7Mon 8Tue 9Wed 10Thu 11Fri 12Sat 13Sun 14Mon 15Tue 16Wed 17Thu 18Fri 19Sat 20Sun 21
Event ↓AEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAAAAA
Men's light flyweightPP¼½F
Men's flyweightPP¼½F
Men's bantamweightPPP¼½F
Men's lightweightPPP¼½F
Men's light welterweightPPP¼½F
Men's welterweightPPP¼½F
Men's middleweightPPPP½F
Men's light heavyweightPPPP¼½F
Men's heavyweightPP¼½F
Men's super heavyweightPP¼½F
Women's flyweightP¼½F
Women's lightweightP¼½F
Women's middleweightP¼½F

Participation

Participating nations

Medalists

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Light flyweight
Hasanboy Dusmatov
 Uzbekistan
Yuberjén Martínez
 Colombia
Joahnys Argilagos
 Cuba
Nico Hernández
 United States
Flyweight [a]
Shakhobidin Zoirov
 Uzbekistan
Yoel Finol
 Venezuela
Hu Jianguan
 China
Vacant
Bantamweight
Robeisy Ramírez
 Cuba
Shakur Stevenson
 United States
Vladimir Nikitin
 Russia
Murodjon Akhmadaliev
 Uzbekistan
Lightweight
Robson Conceição
 Brazil
Sofiane Oumiha
 France
Lázaro Álvarez
 Cuba
Dorjnyambuugiin Otgondalai
 Mongolia
Light welterweight
Fazliddin Gaibnazarov
 Uzbekistan
Lorenzo Sotomayor
 Azerbaijan
Vitaly Dunaytsev
 Russia
Artem Harutyunyan
 Germany
Welterweight
Daniyar Yeleussinov
 Kazakhstan
Shakhram Giyasov
 Uzbekistan
Mohammed Rabii
 Morocco
Souleymane Cissokho
 France
Middleweight
Arlen López
 Cuba
Bektemir Melikuziev
 Uzbekistan
Misael Rodríguez
 Mexico
Kamran Shakhsuvarly
 Azerbaijan
Light heavyweight
Julio César La Cruz
 Cuba
Adilbek Niyazymbetov
 Kazakhstan
Mathieu Bauderlique
 France
Joshua Buatsi
 Great Britain
Heavyweight
Evgeny Tishchenko
 Russia
Vasiliy Levit
 Kazakhstan
Rustam Tulaganov
 Uzbekistan
Erislandy Savón
 Cuba
Super heavyweight
Tony Yoka
 France
Joe Joyce
 Great Britain
Filip Hrgović
 Croatia
Ivan Dychko
 Kazakhstan

Men's flyweight Misha Aloian of  Russia originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified after he tested positive for Tuaminoheptane.[5]

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
Nicola Adams
 Great Britain
Sarah Ourahmoune
 France
Ren Cancan
 China
Ingrit Valencia
 Colombia
Lightweight
Estelle Mossely
 France
Yin Junhua
 China
Mira Potkonen
 Finland
Anastasia Belyakova
 Russia
Middleweight
Claressa Shields
 United States
Nouchka Fontijn
 Netherlands
Dariga Shakimova
 Kazakhstan
Li Qian
 China

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Uzbekistan3227
2 Cuba3036
3 France2226
4 Kazakhstan1225
5 Great Britain1113
 United States1113
7 Russia[a]1034
8 Brazil*1001
9 China0134
10 Azerbaijan0112
 Colombia0112
12 Netherlands0101
 Venezuela0101
14 Croatia0011
 Finland0011
 Germany0011
 Mexico0011
 Mongolia0011
 Morocco0011
Totals (19 nations)13132551

Judging

Controversy surrounded the new judging system; the new system counts has five judges who judge each bout, and a computer randomly selects three whose scores are counted. Traditionally, judges would use a computer scoring system to count each punch landed, but in 2016 the winner of each round was awarded 10 points and the loser a lower number, based on criteria which includes the quality of punches landed, effective aggression and tactical superiority.[6]

Two results in particular attracted controversy (both involving Russian athletes whose victories were put in question): the defeat of Kazakh Vasily Levit by Russian Evgeny Tishchenko in the men's heavyweight gold-medal fight, drawing jeers from the audience,[7] and the defeat of Irish boxer Michael Conlan by Russian Vladimir Nikitin in the men's bantamweight quarter-final, after which Conlan accused AIBA and the Russian team of cheating, even tweeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin "Hey Vlad, How much did they charge you bro??" [6][8] The AIBA would remove an unspecified number of judges and referees following the controversy, stating that they "determined that less than a handful of the decisions were not at the level expected" and "that the concerned referees and judges will no longer officiate at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games"; however, the original decision would still remain.[9][10]

References

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