After 9 days of competition and 551 bouts, the Boxing Road to Paris 1st World Qualification Tournament came to an end this evening, with curtains falling on the two rings of the E-Work Arena of Busto Arsizio, Italy, where the event has been hosted from 3 to 11 March.
An impressive lineup of more than 600 athletes from 113 NOCs and the Boxing Refugee Team, as well as Individual Neutral Athletes competed for 49 Paris 2024 Olympic quota places across 13 weight categories (7 Men’s events with 28 available quota places and 6 Women’s events with 21 available quota places).
The event was organized by the Italian Local Organizing Committee (LOC) under the authority of the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit (PBU), an ad-hoc unit created by the IOC Executive Board with the mandate to organize and ensure the delivery of the Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournaments and the Boxing Competition at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. This decision followed the suspension of the Olympic recognition of the International Boxing Association (IBA) by the IOC Session in June 2019, which was subsequently withdrawn by the IOC Session in June 2023, and the announcement in June 2022 that the IBA would not run the Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournaments and the Boxing Competition at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
In line with the PBU’s primary mandate, and to focus on the athletes and their road to Paris, boxers only competed until the quota places were distributed, and no medal matches and medal ceremonies were staged during the tournament.
The competition run therefore up to the quarterfinals in all weight categories (4 quota places available in each event), except for the women’s 57kg category (2 quota places available), which run up to the semifinal stage, and the women’s 60kg category (3 quota places available), where a box-off assigned the third available quota.
A total of 30 different National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and the Boxing Refugee Team (BRT) were allocated Paris 2024 Quota Places, with Boxing powerhouses Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan winning 5 Paris 2024 quotas each, followed by host country Italy, that collected 4 Olympic passes, today.
Among the highlights of this tournament, Cindy NGAMBA of the Boxing Refugee Team (BRT) made her dreams come truth as she secured a spot in Paris 2024. The boxer – who is among 70 Refugee Athlete Scholarship-holders funded by the IOC’s Olympic Solidarity programme – outpowered Kazakhstan’s Valentina KHALZOVA, claiming one of the four quota places up for grabs in the Women’s 75kg division as the referee stop the contest amid Round 3.
Two athletes, Colombia’s Victoria Ingrit Lorena VALENCIA (women’s 50kg) and Chinese Taipei’s CHEN Nien-chin (women’s 66kg), qualified for their third consecutive Olympic Games participation, while Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Nesthy PETECIO (PHI) became the first Pilipino female boxer to qualify for two Games, as she claimed a Paris 2024 spot in the women’s 57kg event.
The 1st World Qualification Tournament followed the Paris 2024 continental qualification phase staged throughout 2023, which saw boxers from all over the world competing and qualifying for Paris 2024 through the European Games in Krakow, Poland (44 quota places, 22 women and 22 men), the Africa Qualification Tournament in Dakar, Senegal (18 quota places, 11 women and 7 men), the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China (34 quota places, 20 women and 14 men), the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile (30 quota places, 16 women and 14 men), and the Pacific Games in Honiara, Solomon Islands (13 quota places, 6 women and 7 men).
Following Busto Arsizio’s, the 2nd and last Boxing Road to Paris World Qualification Tournament will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 25 May to 2 June 2024.
In line with the Boxing Qualification System for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, only those National Olympic Committees (NOCs) that have not yet qualified an athlete in a specific weight category via the respective continental qualification event are allowed to enter one athlete per weight category.
Find all the results, the drawsheets, updates and photos of the Boxing Road to Paris 1st World Qualification Tournament on the Athlete365 Boxing Corner website at boxing.athlete365.org
| NOC | # | Quota Place Bouts Winners |
| KAZAKHSTAN (KAZ) | 5 | – Men’s 51kg: SAKEN BIBOSSINOV – Men’s 57kg: MAKHMUD SABYRKHAN – Men’s 71kg: ASLANBEK SHYMBERGENOV – Men’s 80kg: NURBEK ORALBAY – Men’s 92kg: Oralbay AIBEK |
| UZBEKISTAN (UZB) | 5 | – Women’s 50kg: Sabina BOBOKULOVA – Men’s 63.5kg: RUSLAN ABDULLAEV – Men’s 71kg: ASADKHUJA MUYDINKHUJAEV – Men’s 80kg: TURABEK KHABIBULLAEV – Men’s 92kg: LAZIZBEK MULLOJONOV |
| ITALY (ITA) | 4 | – Women’s 54kg: Sirine CHARAABI – Women’s 60kg: Alessia MESIANO – Women’s 66kg: Angela CARINI – Men’s +92kg: Diego LENZI |
| POLAND (POL) | 3 | – Women’s 57kg: Julia SZEREMETA – Women’s 66: Aneta RYGIELSKA – Women’s 75: Elzbieta WOJCIK |
| COLOMBIA (COL) | 2 | – Women’s 50kg: VALENCIA VICTORIA INGRIT LORENA – Men’s 57kg: YILMAR LEANDRO GONZALEZ LANDAZURY |
| GERMANY (GER) | 2 | – Women’s 50kg: MAXI CARINA KLOETZER – Men’s +92kg: NELVIE RAMAN TIAFACK |
| GREAT BRITAIN (GBR) | 2 | – Women’s 75kg: Chantelle REID – Men’s 92kg: Patrick BROWN |
| NORWAY (NOR) | 2 | – Women’s 75kg: Sunniva HOFSTAD – Men’s +92kg: Omar SHIHA |
| PHILIPPINES (PHI) | 2 | – Women’s 50kg: AIRA VILLEGAS – Women’s 57kg: Nesthy PETECIO |
| AZERBAIJAN (AZE) | 1 | – Men’s 51kg: NIJAT HUSEYNOV |
| BOXING REFUGEE TEAM (BRT) | 1 | – Women’s 75kg: Cindy NGAMBA |
| BRAZIL (BRA) | 1 | – Men’s 57kg: LUIZ OLIVEIRA |
| BULGARIA (BUL) | 1 | – Men’s 71kg: Rami Mofid KIWAN |
| CHINESE TAIPEI (TPE) | 1 | Women’s 66kg: NIEN CHIN CHEN |
| CUBA (CUB) | 1 | – Men’s 51kg: Alejandro CLARO |
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (DOM) | 1 | – Women’s 66kg: Maria Altagracia MORONTA HERNANDEZ |
| FRANCE (FRA) | 1 | – Men’s +92kg: MOINDZE Djamili-Dini ABOUDOU |
| HUNGARY (HUN) | 1 | – Men’s 80kg: Pylyp AKILOV |
| IRELAND (IRL) | 1 | – Men’s 57kg: Jude GALLAGHER |
| JORDAN (JOR) | 1 | – Men’s 63.5kg: OBADA ALKASBEH |
| KOSOVO | 1 | – Women’s 60kg: Donjeta SADIKU |
| PUERTO RICO (PUR) | 1 | – Men’s 51kg: Juanma LOPEZ DE JESUS |
| SERBIA (SRB) | 1 | – Women’s 54kg: Sara CIRKOVIC |
| SPAIN (ESP) | 1 | – Men’s 92kg: ENMANUEL REYES PLA |
| THAILAND (THA) | 1 | – Women’s 54kg: Jutamas JITPONG |
| THE NETHERLANDS | 1 | – Women’s 60kg: Chelsey HEIJNEN |
| TIJIKISTAN (TJK) | 1 | – Men’s 63.5kg: BAKHODUR USMONOV |
| TURKEY (TUR) | 1 | – Men’s 80kg: Kaan AYKUTSUN |
| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) | 1 | – Men’s 71kg: Omari JONES |
| VENEZUELA (VEN) | 1 | – Men’s 63.5kg: Jesus COVA |
| VIETNAM (VIE) | 1 | – Women’s 54kg: Thi Kim Anh VO |
