| Boxing at the Pan American Games | |
|---|---|
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| No. of events | 15 (men: 10; women: 5) |
Boxing has been contested at every Pan American Games since the first edition of the games in 1951. [1] Until the 2007 Pan American Games was the final games with boxing as a male-only event. The 2011 Pan American Games included women's boxing in the program for the first time. [2]
The following table is ranked by the number of golds, then silvers, then bronzes. At the 1951 games there the losing semi-finalists held a bronze medal playoff; since then, both losing semi-finalists have received bronze medals.
Updated after the 2023 Pan American Games .
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Cuba | 100 | 22 | 18 | 140 |
| 2 |  United States | 37 | 37 | 51 | 125 |
| 3 |  Argentina | 23 | 16 | 30 | 69 |
| 4 |  Brazil | 12 | 27 | 40 | 79 |
| 5 |  Mexico | 9 | 14 | 40 | 63 |
| 6 |  Puerto Rico | 8 | 19 | 27 | 54 |
| 7 |  Venezuela | 8 | 16 | 45 | 69 |
| 8 |  Canada | 8 | 13 | 32 | 53 |
| 9 |  Dominican Republic | 4 | 16 | 28 | 48 |
| 10 |  Colombia | 4 | 12 | 17 | 33 |
| 11 |  Chile | 2 | 9 | 9 | 20 |
| 12 |  Ecuador | 1 | 6 | 11 | 18 |
| 13 |  Uruguay | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| 14 |  Jamaica | 0 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 15 |  Panama | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 16 |  Peru | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 17 |  Guyana | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 18 |  Trinidad and Tobago | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 19 |  Bahamas | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 |  Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 21 |  El Salvador | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Guatemala | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 23 |  Antigua and Barbuda | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Barbados | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Costa Rica | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Haiti | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Honduras | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (27 entries) | 217 | 217 | 391 | 825 | |
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