Boxing at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Workers Indoor Arena
Dates	9–24 August 2008
Competitors	283 from 77 nations
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Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics
	Light flyweight
	Flyweight
	Bantamweight
	Featherweight
	Lightweight
	Light welterweight
	Welterweight
	Middleweight
	Light heavyweight
	Heavyweight
	Super heavyweight
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The boxing program of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China was held at the Workers Indoor Arena.

Medals were awarded in eleven events, with each event corresponding to a recognized weight division of male boxers. The 2008 games were the last Olympic boxing competition to exclude women, as the International Olympic Committee approved the introduction of female boxing events for the 2012 London Olympics.

Like other Olympic combat sports, two bronze medals are awarded; in the case of boxing, both losing semi-finalists receive a bronze medal, with no further play-off. As a result, the quarter-final essentially equates to a bronze medal match, a semi-final to a silver medal match, and the final to a gold medal match. 44 medals are therefore available, 22 of which are bronze medals.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight details	Zou Shiming  China	Pürevdorjiin Serdamba  Mongolia	Paddy Barnes  Ireland Yampier Hernández  Cuba
Flyweight details	Somjit Jongjohor  Thailand	Andry Laffita  Cuba	Georgy Balakshin  Russia Vincenzo Picardi  Italy
Bantamweight details	Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan  Mongolia	Yankiel León  Cuba	Bruno Julie  Mauritius Veaceslav Gojan  Moldova
Featherweight details	Vasyl Lomachenko  Ukraine	Khedafi Djelkhir  France	Yakup Kılıç  Turkey Shahin Imranov  Azerbaijan
Lightweight details	Aleksei Tishchenko  Russia	Daouda Sow  France	Hrachik Javakhyan  Armenia Yordenis Ugás  Cuba
Light welterweight details	Manuel Félix Díaz  Dominican Republic	Manus Boonjumnong  Thailand	Roniel Iglesias  Cuba Alexis Vastine  France
Welterweight details	Bakhyt Sarsekbayev  Kazakhstan	Carlos Banteaux Suárez  Cuba	Hanati Silamu  China Kim Jung-joo  South Korea
Middleweight details	James DeGale  Great Britain	Emilio Correa  Cuba	Darren Sutherland  Ireland Vijender Singh  India
Light heavyweight details	Zhang Xiaoping  China	Kenneth Egan  Ireland	Tony Jeffries  Great Britain Yerkebuian Shynaliyev  Kazakhstan
Heavyweight details	Rakhim Chakhkiev  Russia	Clemente Russo  Italy	Osmay Acosta  Cuba Deontay Wilder  United States
Super heavyweight details	Roberto Cammarelle  Italy	Zhang Zhilei  China	Vyacheslav Glazkov  Ukraine David Price  Great Britain

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	1	1	4
2	Russia	2	0	1	3
3	Italy	1	1	1	3
4	Mongolia	1	1	0	2
	Thailand	1	1	0	2
6	Great Britain	1	0	2	3
7	Kazakhstan	1	0	1	2
	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
9	Dominican Republic	1	0	0	1
10	Cuba	0	4	4	8
11	France	0	2	1	3
12	Ireland	0	1	2	3
13	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Mauritius	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		11	11	22	44

Events

• Light flyweight (−48 kg)
• Flyweight (48–51 kg)
• Bantamweight (51–54 kg)
• Featherweight (54–57 kg)
• Lightweight (57–60 kg)
• Light welterweight (60–64 kg)
• Welterweight (64–69 kg)
• Middleweight (69–75 kg)
• Light heavyweight (75–81 kg)
• Heavyweight (81–91 kg)
• Super heavyweight (+91 kg)

Qualifying criteria

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter up to 1 athlete in each event. Nine places will be reserved for the host nation, from which it will choose 6 places maximum, while the remaining places will be allocated to the Tripartite Invitation Commission. For each athlete from the host NOC who qualifies through the AIBA World Amateur Boxing Championships, the host nation will lose a guaranteed place.

Qualification events are:

• 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships – October 23 – November 3 (8 athletes for −81 kg categories, 4 athletes for +81 kg)
• Continental Olympic Qualifying Events (during 2008, two events in Africa, America, Asia and Europe)
• 2008 Oceania Boxing Championships

The quota awarded to each of the continents is as follows:

* Two additional places will be awarded by Tripartite Invitation Commission, so the athlete quota will be 286

Participating nations