The medal count will be held at the Rolland Garros Stadium (Paris) and promises to be very intense as the awards will be played in several categories at once https://tickets-paris24.com/paris/events/205120.
It includes a semi-final fight between women in the women's 57kg (semi-lightweight) category a semi-final fight between men in the men's 92kg (heavyweight) category a Victory Ceremony in the 63.5kg (lightweight) category and a Victory Ceremony in the 80kg (middleweight) category. At the Paris Olympics 248 boxers will have the honour of competing: 124 women and the same number of men. Ticket holders for the boxing medal session will definitely not be disappointed!
While men's boxing became an Olympic sport back in 1904 women's boxing only entered the programme in 2012. There have always been more male athletes and only at the Paris Olympics will the number be equal.
Olympic boxing competitions in Paris-2024 will be held from 27 July to 10 August at Roland Garros and Arena Paris Nord.
The favourite countries for the highest medals are the USA and Cuba. Thus athletes from the USA are the owners of 50 gold medals and Cubans have 41 medals.
While the qualifying tournament is underway which will end on 31 May 2024.
Recall that in the 2020 Olympics the places were distributed as follows. Cuban Julio César La Cruz won the gold medal in the 91kg weight category silver went to Russian Muslim Gadzhimagomedov bronze went to David Nyika of New Zealand and Brazilian Abner Teixeira.
In the weight category up to 81kg the winners were Arlen Lopez from Cuba silver went to Benjamin Whittaker from Great Britain bronze went to Imam Khataev from Russia and Loren Dominguez from Azerbaijan.
The women's flyweight division was won by Senna Irie of Japan Nesti Petecio of the Philippines Irma Testa of Italy and Carriss Artingstall of Great Britain.
Event Venue
Roland Garros Stadium, 2 Av. Gordon Bennett, 75016 Paris, France, Boulogne-Billancourt
USD 330.00