Men's middleweight boxing at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Riocentro – Pavilion 6 | ||||||||||||||||
Date | 8–20 August 2016 | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 28 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||||||
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Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
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52 kg | 60 kg | |
56 kg | 75 kg | |
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64 kg | ||
69 kg | ||
75 kg | ||
81 kg | ||
91 kg | ||
+91 kg | ||
The men's middleweight boxing competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held from 8 to 20 August at the Riocentro. [1]
Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports.
The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. These were the first Olympic Games ever to be held in South America and the fourth to be held in a developing country, after the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union, and the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area and the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.
All times are Brasília Time (UTC−3).
Date | Time | Round |
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Monday, 8 August 2016 | 12:43 | Round of 32 |
Tuesday, 9 August 2016 | 12:04 | Round of 32 |
Friday, 12 August 2016 | 13:14 | Round of 16 |
Monday, 15 August 2016 | 12:55 | Quarter-finals |
Thursday, 18 August 2016 | 15:00 | Semi-finals |
Saturday, 20 August 2016 | 15:00 | Final |
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1 O'Reilly was ejected from the competition after being suspended when a sample he provided prior to coming to Rio tested positive for a banned substance.
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