Boxing at the Summer Youth Olympics

Boxing at the Summer Youth Olympics
Governing bodyAIBA
Events13 (men: 9; womens: 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 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
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 Cuba5106
2 Russia3216
3 Great Britain3036
4 Kazakhstan2316
5 Uzbekistan2248
6 Italy2215
 Thailand2215
8 Japan2114
 United States2114
10 Brazil2013
11 Germany2002
12 Azerbaijan1214
13 Ukraine1203
14 Ireland1124
15 Australia1113
16 Bulgaria1102
 China1102
 France1102
19 Argentina1034
20 Poland1012
 Puerto Rico1012
22 Algeria0202
23 Turkey0134
24 Croatia0112
 India0112
 Venezuela0112
27 Chinese Taipei0101
 Colombia0101
 Dominican Republic0101
 Mexico0101
 Morocco0101
 Nauru0101
 New Zealand0101
 Nigeria0101
35 Egypt0022
 Hungary0022
37 Armenia0011
 Moldova0011
 Sweden0011
 Turkmenistan0011
Totals (40 entries)373737111

Participating nations

Nation 10 14 18 Years
 Afghanistan (AFG) 1 1 2
 Albania (ALB) 2 1
 Algeria (ALG) 1 4 2
 American Samoa (ASA) 1 1
 Argentina (ARG) 1 1 3 3
 Armenia (ARM) 1 2 2
 Australia (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
 Canada (CAN) 2 1
 Chile (CHI) 1 1
 China (CHN) 2 1
 Chinese Taipei (TPE) 2 1
 Colombia (COL) 1 1
 Croatia (CRO) 3 1
 Cuba (CUB) 3 3 2
 Czech Republic (CZE) 1 1 2
 Dominican Republic (DOM) 1 1
 Ecuador (ECU) 1 1
 Egypt (EGY) 1 3 2
 Finland (FIN) 1 1
 France (FRA) 1 1 1 3
 Georgia (GEO) 1 1
 Germany (GER) 3 1 2
 Great Britain (GBR) 1 3 4 3
 Greece (GRE) 1 1
 Grenada (GRN) 1 1
 Hungary (HUN) 2 3 1 3
 India (IND) 2 2 1 3
 Iran (IRI) 1 1 2
 Ireland (IRL) 2 3 3 3
 Italy (ITA) 1 4 2 3
 Japan (JPN) 3 1
 Kazakhstan (KAZ) 1 4 5 3
 Kosovo (KOS) 1 1
 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) 1 1
 Lithuania (LTU) 2 1
 Mexico (MEX) 1 1 1 3
 Moldova (MDA) 1 1
 Mongolia (MGL) 1 1
 Morocco (MAR) 4 1
 Nauru (NRU) 1 1 2
 New Zealand (NZL) 1 2 2
 Nigeria (NGR) 1 2 2
 Norway (NOR) 1 1
 Poland (POL) 1 1 1 3
 Puerto Rico (PUR) 1 2 2
 Romania (ROU) 1 1
 Russia (RUS) 3 3 4 3
 Rwanda (RWA) 1 1
 Samoa (SAM) 3 1
 Saint Lucia (LCA) 1 1
 Seychelles (SEY) 1 1
 Singapore (SIN) 1 1
 Slovakia (SVK) 1 1 2
 South Korea (KOR) 1 1 2
 Sweden (SWE) 1 1
 Tajikistan (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
 Zambia (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

See also