Dates 28 July – 12 August | ||
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Venue ExCeL Exhibition Centre Competitors 286 (250 men, 36 women) | ||
The boxing tournaments at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 12 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.
Contents
- Competition format
- Qualifying criteria
- Competition schedule
- Alleged gold medal fixing
- Refereeing
- References
A total of 286 competitors took part in 13 events. For the first time at an Olympic Games, women competed in three boxing events. The first Olympic gold medal in women's boxing was awarded to Nicola Adams from Great Britain, who won the flyweight tournament on 9 August 2012. Great Britain topped the overall boxing medal table with three golds and five in total. Russia won the most medals in boxing, six.
Competition format
Men competed in the following ten events:
Women's boxing was included in the Olympic programme for the first time, with female boxers able to participate in three events:
Qualifying criteria
Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to one athlete in each event. Nine places were reserved for the host nation, Great Britain, from which it chose up to six (five male and one female), while the remaining places were allocated to the Tripartite Invitation Commission. For each athlete from the host nation who qualified through the World Amateur Boxing Championships, the host lost a guaranteed place. Each continent had a quota of places to be filled through the two championships. Asia had 56 spots, the Americas 54, Africa 52, Europe 78 and Oceania 10.
Qualification events were:
Competition schedule
There will be two sessions of competition on most days of the 2012 Olympics Boxing program, an afternoon session (A), which will start at 13:30 BST (except for 9 August when it will start at 16:30 BST), and an evening session (E), starting at 20:30 BST.
Alleged gold medal fixing
In September 2011, the BBC Newsnight programme uncovered evidence that $9 million (£5.9 million) worth of secret payments were paid to World Series Boxing (WSB), a subcompany of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), by Azerbaijan in return for two gold medals. The AIBA denied the allegations, stating that the secret payments were a loan from an Azerbaijani investor. The AIBA and the International Olympic Committee both started inquiries into the allegations. The AIBA investigation found in December 2011 that the allegations were "groundless and unsupported by any credible evidence."
Refereeing
There were several controversies and disputes regarding refereeing and officiating at the boxing events in the 2012 Summer Olympics: