Boxing Preview
The boxing tournament at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 will have a little different look to it this year with 13 weight categories, eight for men and five for women. While Rio 2016 also had 13 weight categories, it featured 10 for men and three for women.
The new men’s weight categories for these Games are: fly (48 kg. to 52 kg.), feather (52 kg. to 57 kg.), light (57 kg. to 63 kg.), welter (63 kg. to 69 kg.), middle (69 kg. to 75 kg.), light heavy (75 kg. to 81 kg.), heavy (81 kg. to 91 kg.) and super heavy (91 kg. to +91 kg.).
The women’s weight categories are: fly (48 kg. to 51 kg.), feather (54 kg. to 57 kg.), light (57 kg. to 60 kg.), welter (64 kg. to 69 kg.) and middle (69 kg. to 75 kg.).
The Tokyo Games will have an overall quota of 286 athletes being made up of 186 men and 100 women, compared to 250 men and 36 women at Rio 2016.
Ten of those athletes will represent Team USA: Duke Ragan (featherweight), Keyshawn Davis (lightweight), Delante Johnson (welterweight), Troy Isley (middleweight) and Richard Torrez Jr. (super heavyweight) will compete on the men’s side while Virginia Fuchs (flyweight), Rashida Ellis (lightweight), Oshae Jones (welterweight), Yarisel Ramirez (featherweight) and Naomi Graham (middleweight) will take to the ring on the women’s side.
The U.S. has the most gold and most overall Olympic boxing medals all time, and is coming off three medals in 2016. Tokyo will mark just the third Olympic Games women’s boxing has been contested, with Team USA athletes winning three medals total between 2012 and 2016 — two golds and one bronze.
Updated on July 13, 2021. For more information, contact the sport press officer here.