Boxing at the Summer Youth Olympics

Boxing at the Summer Youth Olympics

Governing body	AIBA
Events	13 (men: 9; women: 4)
Games
2010 2014 2018

Boxing has featured as a sport at the Youth Olympic Summer Games since its first edition in 2010. The Youth Olympic Games are multi-sport event and the games are held every four years just like the Olympic Games.

Editions

Games	Year	Events	Best Nation
1	2010	11 (11M+0W)	Cuba
2	2014	13 (10M+3W)	Cuba
3	2018	13 (9M+4W)	Russia
4	2026	10 (5M+5W)

Format

The boxing competition is organized as a set of tournaments, one for each weight class. The number of weight classes has changed over the years and the definition of each class has changed as shown in the following tables.

Men's weight classes
2010	2014	2018
Super Heavyweight +91 kg
Heavyweight 81–91 kg
Light Heavyweight 75–81 kg
Middleweight 69–75 kg
Welterweight 64–69 kg
Light Welterweight 60–64 kg
Lightweight 57–60 kg	Lightweight 56–60 kg
Featherweight 54–57 kg	Bantamweight 52–56 kg
Bantamweight 51–54 kg	Bantamweight 52–56 kg
Flyweight 48–51 kg	Flyweight 49–52
Light Flyweight -48 kg	Light Flyweight 46–49 kg
11	10	9

Women's weight classes
2014	2018
Middleweight 69–75 kg
Lightweight 57–60 kg
	Featherweight 54–57 kg
Flyweight 48–51 kg
3	4

Medal table

As of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	5	1	0	6
2	Russia	3	2	1	6
3	France	3	1	2	6
4	Great Britain	3	0	3	6
5	Kazakhstan	2	3	1	6
6	Uzbekistan	2	2	4	8
7	Italy	2	2	1	5
7	Thailand	2	2	1	5
9	Japan	2	1	1	4
9	United States	2	1	1	4
11	Brazil	2	0	1	3
12	Germany	2	0	0	2
13	Azerbaijan	1	2	1	4
14	Ukraine	1	2	0	3
15	Ireland	1	1	2	4
16	Australia	1	1	1	3
17	Bulgaria	1	1	0	2
17	China	1	1	0	2
19	Argentina	1	0	3	4
20	Poland	1	0	1	2
20	Puerto Rico	1	0	1	2
22	Algeria	0	2	0	2
23	Turkey	0	1	3	4
24	Croatia	0	1	1	2
	India	0	1	1	2
	Venezuela	0	1	1	2
27	Chinese Taipei	0	1	0	1
	Colombia	0	1	0	1
	Dominican Republic	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Nauru	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
35	Egypt	0	0	2	2
35	Hungary	0	0	2	2
37	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Turkmenistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (40 entries)		39	37	39	115

Participating nations

Nation	10	14	18	Years
Afghanistan	1		1	2
Albania			2	1
Algeria		1	4	2
American Samoa			1	1
Argentina	1	1	3	3
Armenia	1	2		2
Australia	2	2	2	3
Azerbaijan	3	3	2	3
Belarus	1	2		2
Brazil	1		3	2
Bulgaria	1	3	1	3
Canada			2	1
Chile			1	1
China		2		1
Chinese Taipei		2		1
Colombia	1			1
Croatia		3		1
Cuba	3	3		2
Czech Republic	1		1	2
Dominican Republic		1		1
Ecuador	1			1
Egypt	1		3	2
Finland		1		1
France	1	1	1	3
Georgia		1		1
Germany	3	1		2
Great Britain	1	3	4	3
Greece	1			1
Grenada	1			1
Hungary	2	3	1	3
India	2	2	1	3
Iran	1		1	2
Ireland	2	3	3	3
Italy	1	4	2	3
Japan		3		1
Kazakhstan	1	4	5	3
Kosovo			1	1
Kyrgyzstan	1			1
Lithuania	2			1
Mexico	1	1	1	3
Moldova	1			1
Mongolia	1			1
Morocco			4	1
Nauru	1		1	2
New Zealand	1		2	2
Nigeria	1		2	2
Norway		1		1
Poland	1	1	1	3
Puerto Rico	1		2	2
Romania		1		1
Russia	3	3	4	3
Rwanda	1			1
Samoa			3	1
Saint Lucia	1			1
Seychelles	1			1
Singapore	1			1
Slovakia		1	1	2
South Korea	1	1		2
Sweden		1		1
Tajikistan	1			1
Thailand			5	1
Tunisia		1	1	2
Turkey	2	5		2
Turkmenistan	1			1
Ukraine	2	4	2	3
United States	1	4	3	3
Uzbekistan	3	3	4	3
Venezuela	2		1	2
Zambia	1			1

No. of boys boxers	66	60	54
No. of girls boxers	0	18	28
No. of boxers	66	78	82
No. of nations	48	36	38
No. of new nations	48	13	8

External links

Youth Olympic Games