Eder Jofre was a Brazilian professional boxer and architect who was both bantamweight and featherweight world champion. He is considered by many to be the greatest bantamweight boxer of all time.
Bahodirjon Sooltonov is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the bantamweight (54 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.
Joel Casamayor Johnson is a Cuban American former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2011. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the WBA super featherweight title from 2000 to 2002; and the WBC, Ring magazine and lineal lightweight titles between 2006 and 2008. As an amateur, Casamayor won a gold medal in the bantamweight division at the 1992 Olympics, after which he defected to the United States on the eve of the 1996 Olympics.
Jhonny González Vera is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a three-time former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO bantamweight title from 2005 to 2007, and the WBC featherweight title twice between 2011 and 2015. Additionally, he held the IBO featherweight title from 2010 to 2011.
Zsolt Bedák is a Hungarian boxer. His younger brother Pál Bedák is a flyweight boxer.
Men's freestyle 55 kilograms competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on August 19 at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.
Tshifhiwa Munyai is a South African professional boxer who challenged for the WBA super-bantamweight title in 2014. He also held the Commonwealth bantamweight title from 2006 to 2007, and the IBO super-bantamweight title in 2011.
The Women's bantamweight is a competition featured at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Gyeongju Gymnasium in Gyeongju, South Korea on May 2 and May 3. Flyweights were limited to a maximum of 53 kilograms in body mass.
The Men's bantamweight is a competition featured at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Gyeongju Gymnasium in Gyeongju, South Korea on May 5 and May 6. Bantamweights were limited to a maximum of 63 kilograms in body mass.
Benson Gicharu Njangiru is a Kenyan amateur boxer who won silver at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and qualified for the 2012 Olympics. His occupation is police officer.
Alisher Rahimov is an amateur boxer from Uzbekistan. He won the gold medal at the 1999 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in his home nation and competed for the bantamweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He defeated South Korea's Cho Seok-Hwan and Algeria's Hicham Blida in the first two rounds, until he lost to Russia's Raimkul Malakhbekov in the quarterfinal match.
The women's bantamweight is a competition featured at the 2013 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Exhibition Center of Puebla in Puebla, Mexico on July 18. Bantamweights were limited to a maximum of 53 kilograms in body mass.
The men's bantamweight is a competition featured at the 2013 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Exhibition Center of Puebla in Puebla, Mexico on July 20. Bantamweights were limited to a maximum of 63 kilograms in body mass.
Patrick "Schoolboy" Mullings is an English amateur bantamweight and professional super bantam/feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s and 2000s, who as an amateur was the runner-up for the 1990 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) bantamweight title, against Paul Lloyd, and won the 1992 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) bantamweight title, against Michael Alldis, boxing out of St Patricks ABC, and as a professional won the World Boxing Council (WBC) International super bantamweight title, International Boxing Organization (IBO) super bantamweight title, BBBofC (BBBofC) British super bantamweight title, International Boxing Organization (IBO) Inter-Continental super bantamweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC Southern Area super bantamweight title against Spencer Oliver, and International Boxing Organization super bantamweight title against Simon Ramoni, his professional fighting weight varied from 119 lb, i.e. bantamweight to 127 lb, i.e. super featherweight. Patrick Mullings was managed by Frank Maloney.
The women's bantamweight is a competition featured at the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Traktor Ice Arena in Chelyabinsk, Russia on May 15 and May 16. Bantamweights were limited to a maximum of 53 kilograms in body mass.
Boxing competed as one of the eight sports at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas from July 18 to 23, 2017, in the Sir Kendal G. L. Isaacs Gymnasium, Nassau. In the Games, the age limit for participating athletes has been set according to the youth category of the International Boxing Association, which is 16–18 years, means athletes born in 1999 or 2000 are only eligible to take part.
Sean O'Malley is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Bantamweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he is the current UFC Bantamweight Champion. As of December 19, 2023, he is #8 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.
Petr Evgenyevich Yan is a Russian professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Bantamweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Bantamweight Champion. Yan formerly fought in Absolute Championship Berkut where he is a former ACB Bantamweight Champion. As of May 9, 2023, he is #5 in the UFC bantamweight rankings.
Anissa Meksen is an Algerian-French kickboxer, currently signed with ARES Fighting Championship, while most recently competing for ONE Championship. She is the reigning ISKA World K1 Bantamweight champion, reigning WAKO World K1 Bantamweight champion, former two-time Glory Super Bantamweight champion, former WPMF World Muay Thai Flyweight champion, and former French, European, and World Savate champion.
