| Light welterweight at the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Štark Arena | ||||||||||||
| Location | Belgrade, Serbia | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 26 October – 6 November | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 44 from 44 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The Light welterweight competition at the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships was held between 26 October and 6 November. [1]
| Semifinals | Final | |||||
 Kerem Özmen | 5 | |||||
 Reese Lynch | 0 | |||||
| Kerem Özmen | 0 | |||||
 Andy Cruz | 5 | |||||
| Andy Cruz | 5 | |||||
 Hovhannes Bachkov | 0 | |||||
| First round | Second round | Third round | Quarterfinals | |||||||||||
| Kerem Özmen | 4 | |||||||||||||
 Pavel Fedorov | 0 | |||||||||||||
 David Gkevorgkian | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Pavel Fedorov | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Kerem Özmen | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Richard Kovács | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Richard Kovács | 5 | |||||||||||||
 César Morales | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Kerem Özmen | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Shiva Thapa | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Nik Nikolov | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Lounes Hamraoui | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Bhupendra Thapa | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Lounes Hamraoui | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Lounes Hamraoui | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Shiva Thapa | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Shiva Thapa | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Victor Nyadera | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Shiva Thapa | 5 | |||||||||||||
 John Brown | 0 | |||||||||||||
| First round | Second round | Third round | Quarterfinals | |||||||||||
 Alexandros Christodoulou | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Adrián Thiam | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Mark Andrejev | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Adrián Thiam | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Adrián Thiam | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Reese Lynch | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Modestas Žmuidina | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Ashkan Rezaei | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Ashkan Rezaei | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Reese Lynch | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Reese Lynch | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Sanatali Toltayev | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Sanatali Toltayev | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Vasile Cebotari | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Sanatali Toltayev | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Denys Pesotskyy | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Lee Jong-seung | 1 | |||||||||||||
 Matteo Komadina | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Matteo Komadina | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Denys Pesotskyy | 5 | |||||||||||||
| First round | Second round | Third round | Quarterfinals | |||||||||||
 Nicollás de Jesús | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Andy Cruz | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Jonathan Miniel | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Andy Cruz | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Andy Cruz | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Vershaun Lee | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Vershaun Lee | KO | |||||||||||||
 Blessing Waldropt | ||||||||||||||
| Andy Cruz | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Mujibillo Tursunov | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Mujibillo Tursunov | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Taiga Imanaga | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Zhantoro Tashiev | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Taiga Imanaga | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Mujibillo Tursunov | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Lai Chu-en | 2 | |||||||||||||
 Battömöriin Misheelt | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Vasileios Makrygiannis | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Battömöriin Misheelt | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Lai Chu-en | 4 | |||||||||||||
| First round | Second round | Third round | Quarterfinals | |||||||||||
 José Viafara | 1 | |||||||||||||
 Gianluigi Malanga | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Gianluigi Malanga | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Brandon McCarthy | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Gianluigi Malanga | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Hovhannes Bachkov | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Malik Hasanov | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Juan Reyes | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Malik Hasanov | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Hovhannes Bachkov | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Hovhannes Bachkov | 2 [lower-alpha 1] | |||||||||||||
| Somchay Wongsuwan | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Bakhodur Usmonov | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Ilia Shakirov | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Bakhodur Usmonov | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Somchay Wongsuwan | 4 | |||||||||||||
 Ahmad Shtiwi | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Somchay Wongsuwan | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Somchay Wongsuwan | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Ali Reza Ahmadi | 0 | |||||||||||||
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