Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each. Five judges scored the fighters in real time and the boxer with the most points at the end was the winner.^[1]

Boxing at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall
Dates	14 – 29 August 2004
Competitors	280 from 72 nations
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Three days before the Games opening ceremony, the International Olympic Committee announced that Kenyan boxer David Munyasia had tested positive for cathine and had been excluded from the event.^[2]

Several medalists at the 2004 Olympics, including Amir Khan, Andre Ward, Gennady Golovkin, Yuriorkis Gamboa, and Guillermo Rigondeaux, later went on to become world champions in professional boxing. However, Cuban and Russian boxers do not typically turn pro as their government provides them with extensive funding which allows them to keep their “amateur” status and compete at multiple Olympics.^[3] The tournament was also Mario Kindelán's final Olympic event before retirement, with a second lightweight gold medal after defeating Amir Khan.

Test event

The pre-Olympic test event, better known as the 25th Acropolis Cup, was held from 26 to 30 May 2004 in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall in Athens, Greece.

Qualification

The following tournaments were used as qualification tournaments for boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Africa

• All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria from 4 to 20 October 2003
• Qualification Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco from 15 to 22 January 2004
• Qualification Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana from 15 to 22 March 2004

North and South America

• Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 1 to 17 August 2003
• Qualification Tournament in Tijuana, Mexico from 12 to 20 March 2004
• Qualification Tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 4 to 11 April 2004

Asia

• Asian Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines from 11 to 18 January 2004
• Qualification Tournament in Guangzhou, China from 18 to 26 March 2004
• Qualification Tournament in Karachi, Pakistan from 5 to 12 May 2004

Europe

• European Championships in Pula, Croatia from 19 to 29 February 2004
• Qualification Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from 29 March to 5 April 2004
• Qualification Tournament in Warsaw, Poland from 29 March to 5 April 2004
• Qualification Tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden from 20 to 25 April 2004
• Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan from 27 April to 1 May 2004

Australia and Oceania

• Qualification Tournament in Tonga from 26 April to 2 May 2004

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight details	Yan Bartelemí  Cuba	Atagün Yalçınkaya  Turkey	Zou Shiming  China
			Sergey Kazakov  Russia
Flyweight details	Yuriorkis Gamboa  Cuba	Jérôme Thomas  France	Fuad Aslanov  Azerbaijan
			Rustamhodza Rahimov  Germany
Bantamweight details	Guillermo Rigondeaux  Cuba	Worapoj Petchkoom  Thailand	Aghasi Mammadov  Azerbaijan
			Bahodirjon Sultonov  Uzbekistan
Featherweight details	Aleksei Tishchenko  Russia	Kim Song-guk  North Korea	Vitali Tajbert  Germany
			Jo Seok-hwan  South Korea
Lightweight details	Mario Kindelán  Cuba	Amir Khan  Great Britain	Serik Yeleuov  Kazakhstan
			Murat Khrachev  Russia
Light welterweight details	Manus Boonjumnong  Thailand	Yudel Johnson  Cuba	Boris Georgiev  Bulgaria
			Ionuţ Gheorghe  Romania
Welterweight details	Bakhtiyar Artayev  Kazakhstan	Lorenzo Aragón  Cuba	Kim Jung-joo  South Korea
			Oleg Saitov  Russia
Middleweight details	Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov  Russia	Gennady Golovkin  Kazakhstan	Suriya Prasathinphimai  Thailand
			Andre Dirrell  United States
Light heavyweight details	Andre Ward  United States	Magomed Aripgadjiev  Belarus	Ahmed Ismail  Egypt
			Utkirbek Haydarov  Uzbekistan
Heavyweight details	Odlanier Solís  Cuba	Viktar Zuyev  Belarus	Mohamed Elsayed  Egypt
			Nasser Al Shami  Syria
Super heavyweight details	Alexander Povetkin  Russia	Mohamed Aly  Egypt	Michel López Núñez  Cuba
			Roberto Cammarelle  Italy

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	5	2	1	8
2	Russia (RUS)	3	0	3	6
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	1	1	3
	Thailand (THA)	1	1	1	3
5	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
6	Belarus (BLR)	0	2	0	2
7	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	2	3
8	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
12	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	2	2
	Germany (GER)	0	0	2	2
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	2	2
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	2	2
16	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		11	11	22	44