Boxing at the Youth Olympic Games

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Boxing at the Youth Olympic Games
Boxing pictogram.svg
Governing bodyAIBA
Events13 (boys: 9; girls: 4)
Games

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 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
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.
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  (CUB)5106
2 Russia (RUS)3216
3 Great Britain (GBR)3036
4 Kazakhstan (KAZ)2316
5 Uzbekistan (UZB)2248
6  (ITA)2215
 Thailand (THA)2215
8 Japan (JPN)2114
 United States (USA)2114
10 Brazil (BRA)2013
11  (GER)2002
12 Azerbaijan (AZE)1214
13 Ukraine (UKR)1203
14  (IRL)1124
15  (AUS)1113
16 Bulgaria (BUL)1102
 China (CHN)1102
  (FRA)1102
19 Argentina (ARG)1034
20  (POL)1012
  (PUR)1012
22 Algeria (ALG)0202
23 Turkey (TUR)0134
24 Croatia (CRO)0112
 India (IND)0112
 Venezuela (VEN)0112
27 Chinese Taipei (TPE)0101
 Colombia (COL)0101
  (DOM)0101
 Mexico (MEX)0101
 Morocco (MAR)0101
  (NRU)0101
  (NZL)0101
 Nigeria (NGR)0101
35 Egypt (EGY)0022
 Hungary (HUN)0022
37 Armenia (ARM)0011
  (MDA)0011
 Sweden (SWE)0011
 Turkmenistan (TKM)0011
Totals (40 nations)373737111

Participating nations[]

Nation 10 14 18 Years
  (AFG) 1 1 2
 Albania (ALB) 2 1
 Algeria (ALG) 1 4 2
  (ASA) 1 1
 Argentina (ARG) 1 1 3 3
 Armenia (ARM) 1 2 2
  (AUS) 2 2 2 3
 Azerbaijan (AZE) 3 3 2 3
 Belarus (BLR) 1 2 2
 Brazil (BRA) 1 3 2
 Bulgaria (BUL) 1 3 1 3
  (CAN) 2 1
  (CHI) 1 1
 China (CHN) 2 1
 Chinese Taipei (TPE) 2 1
 Colombia (COL) 1 1
 Croatia (CRO) 3 1
  (CUB) 3 3 2
 Czech Republic (CZE) 1 1 2
  (DOM) 1 1
  (ECU) 1 1
 Egypt (EGY) 1 3 2
  (FIN) 1 1
  (FRA) 1 1 1 3
  (GEO) 1 1
  (GER) 3 1 2
 Great Britain (GBR) 1 3 4 3
  (GRE) 1 1
  (GRN) 1 1
 Hungary (HUN) 2 3 1 3
 India (IND) 2 2 1 3
 Iran (IRI) 1 1 2
  (IRL) 2 3 3 3
  (ITA) 1 4 2 3
 Japan (JPN) 3 1
 Kazakhstan (KAZ) 1 4 5 3
  (KOS) 1 1
 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) 1 1
 Lithuania (LTU) 2 1
 Mexico (MEX) 1 1 1 3
  (MDA) 1 1
  (MGL) 1 1
 Morocco (MAR) 4 1
  (NRU) 1 1 2
  (NZL) 1 2 2
 Nigeria (NGR) 1 2 2
  (NOR) 1 1
  (POL) 1 1 1 3
  (PUR) 1 2 2
  (ROU) 1 1
 Russia (RUS) 3 3 4 3
  (RWA) 1 1
  (SAM) 3 1
  (LCA) 1 1
  (SEY) 1 1
  (SIN) 1 1
 Slovakia (SVK) 1 1 2
 South Korea (KOR) 1 1 2
 Sweden (SWE) 1 1
  (TJK) 1 1
 Thailand (THA) 5 1
 Tunisia (TUN) 1 1 2
 Turkey (TUR) 2 5 2
 Turkmenistan (TKM) 1 1
 Ukraine (UKR) 2 4 2 3
 United States (USA) 1 4 3 3
 Uzbekistan (UZB) 3 3 4 3
 Venezuela (VEN) 2 1 2
  (ZAM) 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

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