Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
At the 2012 Olympics in London 13 competitions are held in Boxing from July 28 to August 12, 2012 at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre, three for women and ten men. Thus, women in boxing will fight for Olympic glory for the first time in the Olympic Games. The IOC decided at its meeting in Berlin on 13 August 2009, the inclusion of three women's competitions in the program, flyweight, welterweight and light heavyweight. For a weight class was canceled for the men with the featherweight.
- 4.1 flyweight ( 48 to 51 kg)
- 4.2 Lightweight ( 57-60 kg)
- 4.3 Middleweight ( 69-75 kg)
- 6.1 Qualification Criteria
- 6.2 Won quota places 6.2.1 Women
- 6.2.2 Men
Competitions and schedule
Controversial judgments
For a real scandal was the struggle between the output bantamweight Japanese Satoshi Shimizu and Magomed Abdulhamidow from Azerbaijan. For although Shimizu had his opponent six times on the ground, Abdulhamidow was not down for the count and finally declared even to the point winner ( 22:17). After the protest of the Japanese Boxweltverband AIBA aside the judgment and certain Shimizu the winner by superiority. The Turkmen Impartial Ischanguli Meretnijasow who had led the fight, and the Azerbaijani functionaries of AIBA Aghajan Abiyew were suspended.
The German referee Frank Scharmach was suspended for five days because he had the Iranians Mazaheri cautioned three times controversial when heavyweight knockout round between Ali Mazaheri and José Larduet and subsequently disqualified. Scharmach is to insert a "pause " and look in detail at the judgment, according to AIBA. Since the Iranian team but it apparently failed to timely formally lodge an appeal against the outcome, it stayed with the victory of the Cuban.
The fight between the output welterweight Errol Spence Americans and the Indians Vikas Krishan Yadav was canceled by the AIBA. Yadav had initially been declared the winner on points ( 13:11), but the AIBA corrected after analysis of the video recordings of the fight starting point in a 15:13 victory for the Americans. According to AIBA several fouls of the Indian and the resulting point gains for Spence had not been taken into account.
For excitement also caused the resignation of the German middleweight Jewellers Stefan Härtel against the Englishman Anthony Ogogo in the quarterfinals. The President of the German boxing federation Jürgen Kyas spoke of a influenced by home advantage and fight Result of a violation of neutrality by the referee. The victory of the Englishman was not questioned, but the fact that this was awarded all three rounds, although Härtel by German view at least clearly dominated the second round.
Results Men
Flyweight (up to 49kg)
Final: August 11, 2012, 20:30 Clock
Flyweight ( 52 kg )
Final: August 12, 2012, 13:30 Clock
Bantamweight (up to 56 kg )
Final: August 11, 2012, 20:45 Clock
Lightweight ( up to 60 kg )
Final: August 12, 2012, 13:45 Clock
Welterweight ( up to 64 kg )
Final: August 11, 2012, 21:15 Clock
Welterweight (up to 69 kg )
Final: August 12, 2012, 14:15 Clock
Middleweight (up to 75 kg)
Final: August 11, 2012, 21:45 Clock
Light Heavyweight (up to 81 kg )
Final: August 12, 2012, 14:45 Clock
Heavyweight ( to 91 kg)
Final: August 11, 2012, 22:15 Clock
Super Heavyweight ( over 91 kg)
Final: August 12, 2012, 15:15 Clock
Results Women
Flyweight ( 48 to 51 kg)
Final: August 9, 2012, 16:30 Clock
Lightweight ( 57-60 kg)
Final: August 9, 2012, 16:45 Clock
Middleweight ( 69-75 kg)
Final: August 9, 2012, 17:15 Clock
Medal Tally
Qualification
Qualification criteria
There are 286 athletes take part in the competitions, including 36 women and 250 men. Six quota places were reserved for the NOC of the host and 19 quota places will be at the invitation of the Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur ( AIBA ) awarded to NOCs who could not achieve quota places after the completion of the qualifying phase. Per weight class, each NOC was allowed to nominate a maximum of athletes.
The only qualifying competition of the women were the World Championships in 2012, with the top eight athletes per weight class won a quota place, but only as part of a continental maximum rate. Africa had five quota places, America eight, eight Asia, Europe and Oceania twelve three. The World Championships were held from 9 to 20, 2012 in Qinhuangdao instead. Eleven quota places awarded the AIBA after the World Championships by invitation, a starting place was reserved for the host NOK, if no athlete would regularly qualify.
For men at the World Championships in Baku 92 quota places were awarded to the athletes in positions one to ten or positions one through six for the two heaviest weight classes in the first qualifying phase from 22 September to 10 October 2011. In the second qualifying phase 140 quota places were awarded in continental tournaments in the spring of 2012. Africa stood at World Championships and Continental Qualification total of 52 quota places to America 54, Asia 56, Europe 78 and Oceania ten. Five quota places were also awarded for the first time in May 2011 at the World Series of Boxing (WSB). After completion of the continental qualifying competitions the AIBA awarded seven quota places by invitation.
Won quota places
Women
Flyweight ( 48 to 51 kg)
Lightweight ( 57-60 kg)
Middleweight ( 69-75 kg)
Flyweight (up to 49kg)
Flyweight ( 52 kg )
- As for Britain, both Andrew Selby (Wales ) and Khalid Yafai (England) qualified, there was an elimination bout, the Selby could decide for themselves.
Bantamweight (up to 56 kg )
Lightweight ( up to 60 kg )
Welterweight ( up to 64 kg )
Welterweight (up to 69 kg )
Middleweight (up to 75 kg)
Light Heavyweight (up to 81 kg )
Heavyweight ( to 91 kg)
Super Heavyweight ( over 91 kg)
Overview qualified NOCs
The five quota places awarded in the WSB, won the associations of Algeria, France, Italy, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. The associations had set, they take in what weight class Olympic quota place in the claim due to differences in the classification of weight classes. Per invitation received in June 2012 among women in Brazil, Bulgaria, North Korea, China, the USA, Sweden, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Romania, Kenya and Canada as well as in the men's Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Montenegro, Honduras, Panama, Angola and Iraq each have a starting place. Burkina Faso and Mali gave their quota places back to the world governing body AIBA, the starting positions were reassigned to Cameroon and Niger. Overall, athletes will participate from 79 NOCs in the competitions.