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Boxing at the Summer Youth Olympics
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Governing body AIBA
Events 13 (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 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.
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Cuba (CUB) 5 1 0 6
2  Russia (RUS) 3 2 1 6
3  Great Britain (GBR) 3 0 3 6
4  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 2 3 1 6
5  Uzbekistan (UZB) 2 2 4 8
6  Italy (ITA) 2 2 1 5
 Thailand (THA) 2 2 1 5
8  Japan (JPN) 2 1 1 4
 United States (USA) 2 1 1 4
10  Brazil (BRA) 2 0 1 3
11  Germany (GER) 2 0 0 2
12  Azerbaijan (AZE) 1 2 1 4
13  Ukraine (UKR) 1 2 0 3
14  Ireland (IRL) 1 1 2 4
15  Australia (AUS) 1 1 1 3
16  Bulgaria (BUL) 1 1 0 2
 China (CHN) 1 1 0 2
 France (FRA) 1 1 0 2
19  Argentina (ARG) 1 0 3 4
20  Poland (POL) 1 0 1 2
 Puerto Rico (PUR) 1 0 1 2
22  Algeria (ALG) 0 2 0 2
23  Turkey (TUR) 0 1 3 4
24  Croatia (CRO) 0 1 1 2
 India (IND) 0 1 1 2
 Venezuela (VEN) 0 1 1 2
27  Chinese Taipei (TPE) 0 1 0 1
 Colombia (COL) 0 1 0 1
 Dominican Republic (DOM) 0 1 0 1
 Mexico (MEX) 0 1 0 1
 Morocco (MAR) 0 1 0 1
 Nauru (NRU) 0 1 0 1
 New Zealand (NZL) 0 1 0 1
 Nigeria (NGR) 0 1 0 1
35  Egypt (EGY) 0 0 2 2
 Hungary (HUN) 0 0 2 2
37  Armenia (ARM) 0 0 1 1
 Moldova (MDA) 0 0 1 1
 Sweden (SWE) 0 0 1 1
 Turkmenistan (TKM) 0 0 1 1
Totals (40 entries) 37 37 37 111

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

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