Only 4 days left until the first competition day in the Olympic Games but the draw will be held in 2 days
Only 4 days left until the first official competition day at the Paris Olympic Games and most of the teams have already arrived to France.
The official draw of the boxing event of the Paris Olympic Games will be held after the Technical Meeting at 19:15 local time on July 25 which is the first important session in the French capital.
The seeding system is known, the Paris Boxing Unit issued it last month and eight boxers have been seeded in each weight class.
Following the Official Opening Ceremony on July 26, the Olympic Games will begin in several sports including boxing on its first competition day on July 27. The finals have been divided into five competition days and will feature in Paris on August 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
Thirteen events, 248 top boxers, 124 female and 124 male athletes from 69 nations will compete in the boxing event of the Paris Olympics this Summer.
Nine boxers as five women and four men from nine different countries received universality spots from the Tripartite Quota Commission after all of the qualification events.
The Arena Paris Nord is the competition venue during the preliminaries and the Roland Garros Stadium will be the place of the final phase.
The Asian boxers earned finally 72 quotas during the three qualification events and 16 countries from our continent will represent the Olympic Games in our sport which is the second highest number after Europe.
The Asian Games, the 1st World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event and the 2nd World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event were the quota events for the Asian boxers, three opportunities for all of the National Federations.
The Asian women boxers achieved 37 qualification places for the Paris Olympics and several of them are gold medal contenders. The Asian male boxers took 35 quotas in the qualification events including one wild card and the stars of our continent have strong potential in Paris.
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, China, Chinese Taipei, India, the Philippines, Tajikistan, Jordan, Mongolia, South Korea, DPR Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine will have boxers in the Olympic Games from the Asian continent.
The details and other important competition related information from the boxing event will be available in the official website of the Paris Olympic Games.
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