Men's heavyweight boxing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | ExCeL Exhibition Centre | ||||||||||||||||
Date | 1–11 August | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 15 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||||||
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Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics | ||
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Men | Women | |
49 kg | 51 kg | |
52 kg | 60 kg | |
56 kg | 75 kg | |
60 kg | ||
64 kg | ||
69 kg | ||
75 kg | ||
81 kg | ||
91 kg | ||
+91 kg | ||
The men's heavyweight boxing competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 1 to 11 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.
Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports.
Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring.
The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom. The first event, the group stage in women's football, began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, followed by the opening ceremonies on 27 July. 10,768 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.
Fifteen boxers from 15 nations are competed.
The competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament. Bronze medals were awarded to both semi-final losers. Bouts were three rounds of three minutes each. [1]
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion. Each match-up may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European football or best-of series in American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progressing to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, often called playoffs.
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Date | Time | Round |
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Wednesday 1 August 2012 | 14:30 & 21:30 | Round of 16 |
Sunday 5 August 2012 | 21:30 | Quarter-finals |
Friday 10 August 2012 | 15:30 | Semi-finals |
Saturday 11 August 2012 | 21:30 | Final |
Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||||||
17 | ||||||||||||||||||
10+ | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
10 | 21 | |||||||||||||||||
10 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
13 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
12 | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
11 | 19+ | |||||||||||||||||
12 | 19 | |||||||||||||||||
21 | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
15 | ||||||||||||||||||
DSQ | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
WO | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
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