The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed the weight classes and quota places for the boxing competition at the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) where there will be full parity between men and women. It means there will be seven weight classes for both men and women, who will have an equal share of the 248 quota places in the boxing competition (124 each).
Parity in the weight classes means an additional weight category has been added to the female competition from Paris 2024, where there were seven classes for men (125 quota places) and six for women (124 quota places).
The weight classes for boxing at LA28 will be:
- Men: bantamweight, lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight, super heavyweight
- Women: flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight
The news follows the decision by the IOC to restore boxing to the sport program for LA28, where the competition and qualification pathway will be managed by World Boxing after it was granted provisional recognition by the IOC in February 2025 as the International Federation (IF) for boxing within the Olympic Movement.
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