AIBA World Boxing Championships

The AIBA World Boxing Championships and the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships are biennial amateur boxing competitions organised by the International Boxing Association (AIBA), which is the sport governing body.[1][2] Alongside the Olympic boxing programme, it is the highest level of competition for the sport. The championships was first held in 1974 Havana, Cuba as a men's only event and the first women's championships was held over 25 years later in 2001.[3]

AIBA World Boxing Championships
Status	active
Genre	sports event
Date(s)	varying
Frequency	biennial
Location(s)	various
Inaugurated	1974 (1974) (men) 2001 (2001) (women)
Organised by	AIBA

The men's and women's competitions are held separately and since 2006 the biennial championships have been held in alternating years. The number of weight categories was reduced from twelve to eleven in 2003 with the removal of the light middleweight division (−71 kg). In 2011 the weight categories went down to ten with the removal of the featherweight division (−57 kg). In 2019 the weight categories went down to eight with the removal of the light flyweight division (−49 kg) and including of the featherweight division (−57 kg) instead of bantamweight division (−56 kg) and lightweight division (−60 kg).

Men's editions

Cuban Felix Savon is the most successful boxer in the World Amateur Boxing Championships (Men's editions) of all time having won 6 gold medals as a heavyweight.

As of 2019, weight classes for the men include[4]:

• 52 Kg (Flyweight)
• 57 Kg (Featherweight)
• 63 Kg (Light welterweight)
• 69 Kg (Welterweight)
• 75 Kg (Middleweight)
• 81 Kg (Light Heavyweight)
• 91 Kg (Heavyweight)
• 91+ Kg (Super Heavyweight)

Number	Year	Host	Dates	Venue	Events
1	1974	Havana, Cuba	17–30 August	Coliseo de la Ciudad Deportiva	11
2	1978	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	6–20 May	Pionir Sports Hall[5]	11
3	1982	Munich, West Germany	4–15 May	Olympiahalle[6]	12
4	1986	Reno, United States	8–18 May	Reno-Sparks Convention Center	12
5	1989	Moscow, Soviet Union	17 September – 1 October	Olympic Stadium	12
6	1991	Sydney, Australia	14–23 November	State Sports Centre[7]	12
7	1993	Tampere, Finland	7–16 May	Tampere Ice Stadium	12
8	1995	Berlin, Germany	4–15 May	Deutschlandhalle	12
9	1997	Budapest, Hungary	18–26 October	Budapest Sportcsarnok	12
10	1999	Houston, United States	15–29 August	George R. Brown Convention Center	12
11	2001	Belfast, United Kingdom	3–10 June	Odyssey Arena	12
12	2003	Bangkok, Thailand	6–13 July	Nimibutr Stadium	11
13	2005	Mianyang, China	13–20 November	Jiu Zhou Gymnasium	11
14	2007	Chicago, United States	23 October – 3 November	UIC Pavilion	11
15	2009	Milan, Italy	1–12 September	Mediolanum Forum	11
16	2011	Baku, Azerbaijan	22 September – 10 October	Heydar Aliyev Sports	10
17	2013	Almaty, Kazakhstan	14–26 October	Baluan Sholak Sports Palace	10
18	2015	Doha, Qatar	5–18 October	Ali Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena	10
19	2017	Hamburg, Germany	25 August – 3 September	Alsterdorfer Sporthalle	10
20	2019	Yekaterinburg, Russia	8–21 September	Ekaterinburg Expo	8
21	2021	Belgrade, Serbia	TBD		8
22	2023	Bogota, Colombia	TBD		8

All-time medal table (1974–2019)

Updated after the 2019 AIBA World Boxing Championships.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	77	35	26	138
2	Russia	26	21	22	69
3	United States	16	11	19	46
4	Soviet Union	15	11	17	43
5	Kazakhstan	12	13	21	46
6	Uzbekistan	9	14	18	41
7	Bulgaria	8	8	19	35
8	Romania	7	5	17	29
9	Ukraine	6	12	11	29
10	Azerbaijan	6	4	9	19
11	Italy	6	2	14	22
12	Germany	4	6	25	35
13	France	4	6	14	24
14	China	3	1	9	13
15	Hungary	3	1	6	10
16	Turkey	2	3	11	16
17	South Korea	2	3	8	13
18	Puerto Rico	2	1	3	6
19	East Germany	1	8	15	24
20	Yugoslavia	1	6	10	17
21	England	1	4	9	14
22	Mongolia	1	4	6	11
23	Ireland	1	3	9	13
	Poland	1	3	9	13
25	Thailand	1	3	5	9
26	Armenia	1	1	6	8
27	Brazil	1	1	5	7
28	Georgia	1	1	4	6
29	Nigeria	1	1	3	5
30	Kenya	1	1	0	2
31	Morocco	1	0	2	3
32	Uganda	1	0	1	2
33	Venezuela	0	5	6	11
34	Philippines	0	3	3	6
35	Finland	0	3	2	5
36	Belarus	0	2	6	8
37	North Korea	0	2	5	7
38	Algeria	0	2	2	4
	Netherlands	0	2	2	4
40	India	0	1	5	6
41	Canada	0	1	4	5
42	Lithuania	0	1	3	4
43	Argentina	0	1	2	3
	Japan	0	1	2	3
	Wales	0	1	2	3
46	Croatia	0	1	1	2
	Ecuador	0	1	1	2
48	West Germany	0	0	6	6
49	Australia	0	0	5	5
	Egypt	0	0	5	5
51	Sweden	0	0	4	4
52	Czech Republic	0	0	3	3
	Tajikistan	0	0	3	3
54	Norway	0	0	2	2
	Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	2	2
	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
57	Cameroon	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Costa Rica	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Dominican Republic	0	0	1	1
	Ghana	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan	0	0	1	1
	Panama	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (69 nations)		222	220	444	886

Note

• Puerto Rican boxer Luis Román Rolón (48 kg) and US boxer Loren Ross (81 kg) were convicted of doping, disqualified and deprived of their silver medals of the 1986 World Championships, which were not transferred to other athletes.

Multiple gold medalists

Boldface denotes active amateur boxers and highest medal count among all boxers (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

Rank	Boxer	Country	Weights	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Félix Savón	Cuba	91 kg	1986	1999	6	1	–	7
2	Juan Hernández Sierra	Cuba	67 kg	1991	1999	4	–	1	5
	Julio César La Cruz	Cuba	81 kg	2011	2019	4	–	1	5
4	Lázaro Álvarez	Cuba	56 kg / 60 kg / 57 kg	2011	2019	3	2	–	5
5	Serafim Todorov	Bulgaria	54 kg / 57 kg	1989	1995	3	1	–	4
	Zou Shiming	China	48 kg / 49 kg	2003	2011	3	1	–	4
7	Francisc Vaștag	Romania	67 kg / 71 kg	1989	1995	3	–	1	4
8	Roberto Balado	Cuba	+91 kg	1989	1993	3	–	–	3
	Adolfo Horta	Cuba	54 kg / 57 kg / 60 kg	1978	1986	3	–	–	3
	Mario Kindelán	Cuba	60 kg	1999	2003	3	–	–	3
	Magomedrasul Majidov	Azerbaijan	+91 kg	2011	2017	3	–	–	3
	Odlanier Solís	Cuba	91 kg / +91 kg	2001	2005	3	–	–	3
	Teófilo Stevenson	Cuba	+81 kg / +91 kg	1974	1986	3	–	–	3

Women's editions

As of 2018, weight classes for women are as follows[4]:

• 45 – 48 kg (Light flyweight)
• 51 Kg (Flyweight)
• 54 Kg (Bantamweight)
• 57 Kg (Featherweight)
• 60 Kg (Lightweight)
• 64 Kg (Light welterweight)
• 69 Kg (Welterweight)
• 75 Kg (Middleweight)
• 81 Kg (Light heavyweight)
• 81+ Kg (Heavyweight)

Number	Year	Host	Dates	Venue	Events
1	2001	Scranton, United States	24 November – 2 December		12
2	2002	Antalya, Turkey	21–27 October		12
3	2005	Podolsk, Russia	26 September – 2 October	Vityaz Ice Palace	13
4	2006	New Delhi, India	18–23 November	Talkatora Indoor Stadium	13
5	2008	Ningbo, China	22–29 November	Ningbo Sports Center	13
6	2010	Bridgetown, Barbados	10–18 September	Garfield Sobers Gymnasium	10
7	2012	Qinhuangdao, China	21 May – 3 June		10
8	2014	Jeju City, South Korea	13–25 November	Halla Gymnasium	10
9	2016	Astana, Kazakhstan	19–27 May		10
10	2018	New Delhi, India	15–24 November	KD Jadav Indoor Stadium	10
11	2019	Ulan-Ude, Russia	3–13 October		10
12	2020	Bogotá, Colombia	TBD		10

All-time medal table (2001–2019)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	24	11	25	60
2	China	18	15	18	51
3	India	9	8	19	36
4	North Korea	8	7	10	25
5	United States	7	9	22	38
6	Canada	7	2	17	26
7	Turkey	6	8	13	27
8	Ireland	6	1	1	8
9	Kazakhstan	5	4	9	18
10	Italy	4	4	3	11
11	France	4	3	4	11
12	Ukraine	3	7	10	20
13	Hungary	3	5	11	19
14	Sweden	3	2	6	11
15	Chinese Taipei	3	0	2	5
16	Philippines	2	2	7	11
17	Brazil	2	0	2	4
18	England	1	6	4	11
19	Romania	1	4	8	13
20	Poland	1	3	6	10
21	Bulgaria	1	2	2	5
22	Belarus	1	1	2	4
23	Germany	1	0	2	3
24	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
	Wales	1	0	1	2
26	Panama	1	0	0	1
27	Netherlands	0	3	4	7
28	Norway	0	3	1	4
29	Thailand	0	2	4	6
30	Argentina	0	2	2	4
31	Azerbaijan	0	2	1	3
32	Denmark	0	1	5	6
33	Australia	0	1	3	4
34	Greece	0	1	2	3
35	Colombia	0	1	0	1
	Jamaica	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
38	Finland	0	0	4	4
39	Japan	0	0	3	3
40	Egypt	0	0	2	2
	South Korea	0	0	2	2
42	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	Vietnam	0	0	1	1
Totals (48 nations)		123	122	245	490

Notes

• At the 2001 World Championships, Russian boxer Natalya Kolpakova (71 kg) finished at 2nd place but was disqualified afterwards and deprived of her silver medal which was not transferred to other athlete.
• At the 2008 World Championships, Chinese boxer Chen Ying (48 kg) originally won the gold medal but was disqualified for failing doping test. Gold medal in this weight category was reawarded to France, silver medal - to Russia, one bronze medal - to Sweden and other bronze medal was not awarded to any boxer.

Multiple gold medalists

Boldface denotes active boxers and highest medal count among all boxers (including these who are not included in these tables) per type. In 2018, Mary Kom defeated Ukrainian boxer Hanna Okhota with a 5–0 win in the 48 kg weight category, she is now tied with Cuban legend Felix Savon’s haul of six golds.[8][9]

Rank	Boxer	Country	Weights	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Mary Kom	India	48 kg / 45 kg / 46 kg / 51 kg	2001	2019	6	1	1	8
2	Katie Taylor	Ireland	60 kg	2006	2016	5	–	1	6
3	Irina Sinetskaya	Russia	67 kg / 66 kg / 80 kg / +81 kg	2001	2012	3	1	1	5
4	Yang Xiaoli	China	81 kg / +81 kg	2014	2019	3	1	–	4
5	Mary Spencer	Canada	66 kg / 75 kg	2005	2010	3	–	1	4
6	Simona Galassi	Italy	51 kg / 50 kg	2001	2005	3	–	–	3
	Ren Cancan	China	52 kg / 51 kg	2008	2012	3	–	–	3
8	Mária Kovács	Hungary	90 kg / 86 kg / 75 kg	2001	2010	2	2	1	5
9	Ariane Fortin-Brochu	Canada	70 kg / 75 kg	2005	2014	2	1	1	4
	Anna Laurell	Sweden	75 kg	2001	2012	2	1	1	4
	Sofya Ochigava	Russia	52 kg / 54 kg / 57 kg / 60 kg	2005	2012	2	1	1	4

See also

• AIBA World Championships Challenge
• List of medalists at the AIBA World Boxing Championships
• List of medalists at the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships

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