Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses to women boxers, and most nations officially banning the sport. Reports of women entering the ring go back to the 18th century.
The practice of sports in Argentina is varied due to the population's diverse European origins and the mostly mild climate. Association football is the most popular discipline and other sports played both professionally and recreatively athletics, auto racing, basketball, boxing, cycling, field hockey, fishing, golf, handball, mountaineering, mountain biking, padel tennis, polo, roller hockey, rowing, rugby union, sailing, skiing, swimming, tennis, and volleyball. Argentine achievements can be found in team sports such as association football, basketball, field hockey and rugby union, and individual sports such as boxing, golf, tennis and rowing. Pato, the national sport, is not very popular.
Hocine Soltani was an Algerian boxer, who won two Olympic medals. In 1992, the southpaw placed third in the featherweight division (54–57 kg), and at the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the lightweight division.
Rafael Lozano Muñoz is a former boxer from Spain.
Sports in Colombia includes professional sports leagues, as well as amateur leagues for numerous sports. Football, cycling, and roller skating are the most popular sports in Colombia. The Government of Colombia sponsors numerous individuals and teams nationally and internationally through the Ministry of Sports to enable sportspeople to represent Colombia in competition. The achievements of professional sportspeople are a source of national pride for Colombians.
McWilliams Arroyo Acevedo is a Puerto Rican professional boxer.
Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo is a Cuban boxer, best known for winning the junior world title at lightweight in 2006, a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and a gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He went on to add to his already impressive Olympic resume by winning another gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo at 33-years-old.
Pavlo Olehovych Ishchenko is an Olympic Ukrainian-Israeli boxer who competes as a bantamweight. He won the gold medal at the 2013 European Amateur Boxing Championships as a Lightweight (60 kg) for Ukraine. In 2017, boxing for Israel, he won a bronze medal at the 2017 European Amateur Boxing Championships as a Lightweight.
Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana is a Spanish-Domincan artistic gymnast. He is the 2020 Olympic silver medalist on the floor exercise. He is also the 2015 World bronze medalist and the 2015 European Games champion on the floor exercise. He also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where he finished seventh on the floor exercise.
Luis Javier Mosquera Lozano is a Colombian Olympic weightlifter. He represented his country in the Men's 69 kg Weightlifting competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics on August 9, 2016, winning the bronze medal. He initially finished fourth behind Izzat Artykov, who was later disqualified for failing a performance-enhancing drugs test. He received his bronze medal on March 28, 2019.
Fabián Andrés Maidana is an Argentine professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2010 Youth World Championships and a bronze at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.
Loren Berto Alfonso Domínguez is a Cuban-Azerbaijani boxer who has competed in the light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions.
Victor Schelstraete is a Belgian boxer. He competed at the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships, winning the bronze medal in the cruiserweight event. Schelstraete secured a quota place for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France at the last qualifier event on the Boxing Road to Paris, the 2024 World Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 held at the Indoor Stadium Huamark in Bangkok, Thailand. At the Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals where he lost to the Spanish boxer Enmanuel Reyes.
Ayoub Ghadfa Drissi El Aissaoui is a Spanish boxer. He competed at the 2022 European Amateur Boxing Championships, being awarded the bronze medal in the super heavyweight event. He also competed at the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships in the super heavyweight event, winning no medal. He also won the silver medal at the 2024 Olympics.
Dominican Republic competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's sixteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Spain competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Spanish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games from 1920 onwards, except for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany because the nation's government was part of the anti-fascist boycott.
Junior Alcántara Reyes is a Dominican Republic boxer, Pan American Games champion and Central American Games silver medalist.
Events in the year 2024 in Cape Verde.
Juan Manuel López de Jesús, often known by his nickname "Juanmita", is a Puerto Rican profesional boxer. As a juvenile he was a multiple-time national champion and medalist at the 2022 IBA Youth World Boxing Championships as a minimumweight and light flyweight. López qualified to the 2024 Summer Olympics by winning Section 3 of the flyweight (51 kg) division of the 2024 World Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament 1.
Nijat Namig oglu Huseynov is an Azerbaijani boxer competing in the light flyweight weight category. He is a member of Azerbaijan's national team, a bronze medalist at the 2021 Youth World Championships, a two-time European Youth Champion and has represented at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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