Atomweight (also referred to as light minimumweight, junior strawweight, junior mini-flyweight and pinweight) is a weight class in combat sports.
In women's boxing and junior amateur boxing pinweight is, or has been, a weight class for boxers weighing in under 102 pounds (46 kg) (before 2003, 45 kg).
In September 2010 the women's class in amateur boxing was partly merged into an extended 45–48 kg light flyweight division, with women weighing less than 45 kg excluded from competition. Pinweight is still defined for junior contests.
Current Champions (Last updated on January 25, 2024)
Sanctioning Body | Reign Began | Champion | Record | Defenses |
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WBA | January 12, 2024 | Eri Matsuda | 7–1–1 (1 KO) | 0 |
WBC | January 13, 2024 | Tina Rupprecht | 13–1–1 (3 KO) | 0 |
IBF | January 12, 2024 | Sumire Yamanaka | 8–0 (3 KO) | 0 |
WBO | January 12, 2024 | Eri Matsuda | 7–1–1 (1 KO) | 0 |
year | World | European |
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2001 | Elena Sabitova | Oria Mahmoud |
2002 | Mary Kom | |
2003 | Camelia Negrea | |
2004 | Elena Sabitova | |
2005 | Mary Kom | Elena Sabitova |
2006 | Mary Kom | Steluta Duta |
2007 | Steluta Duta | |
2008 | Mary Kom | |
2009 | Svetlana Gnevanova |
The atomweight division in mixed martial arts generally refers to competitors weighing less than 105 lb.
Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling.
Flyweight is a weight class in combat sports.
Mini flyweight, also known as strawweight, minimumweight or super atomweight, is a weight class in combat sports.
Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time. The 2008 Summer Olympics were the final games with boxing as a male only event. Since the 2012 Summer Olympics, women's boxing is part of the program.
Mixed martial arts weight classes are weight classes that pertain to the sport of mixed martial arts.
The IBA Men's World Boxing Championships and the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships are biennial amateur boxing competitions organised by the International Boxing Association, which is the sport governing body. Alongside the Olympic boxing programme, they are the highest level of competition for the sport. The championships were first held for men in 1974 and the first women's championships were held over 25 years later in 2001.
USA Boxing is the national governing body for Olympic-style boxing. It is overseen by the United States Olympic Committee and World Boxing, which sets its rules.
The strawweight division in mixed martial arts is for competitors weighing between 106 and 115 lb. It sits between the lighter atomweight division and the heavier flyweight division.
In boxing, a weight class is a measurement weight range for boxers. The lower limit of a weight class is equal to the upper weight limit of the class below it. The top class, with no upper limit, is called heavyweight in professional boxing and super heavyweight in amateur boxing. A boxing match is usually scheduled for a fixed weight class, and each boxer's weight must not exceed the upper limit. Although professional boxers may fight above their weight class, an amateur boxer's weight must not fall below the lower limit. A nonstandard weight limit is called a catchweight.
The boxing tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Pavilion 6 of Riocentro. However, boxing at the games was overshadowed with controversy after there were doubts raised that results in certain bouts had been manipulated. These concerns were upheld in a report published in 2021.
The atomweight division in mixed martial arts generally refers to competitors weighing less than 48 kg (105.8 lb), depending on the promotion. It sits below the heavier strawweight division and is the lightest weight class widely recognized within MMA. The atomweight division in mixed martial arts is used almost exclusively for Women's MMA.
Momo Koseki is a Japanese former professional boxer. She is a two-weight world champion, having held the WBC female atomweight title from 2008 to 2015; the WBA female atomweight title in 2015; and the WBC female strawweight title in 2017. Koseki made a record-breaking seventeen consecutive title defenses of her WBC atomweight title.
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