Qualification for the
Boxing Events at the 2012 Summer Olympics is based on the WBS Individual Championships, the 2011 World Championships and 5 Continental Qualifying Events to be held in 2012. Qualification for the women's events was at the World Championships only.
Qualification summary
Qualification timeline
Men's events
Olympic Qualification System per Continent and by Weight Category.
* ( ) Tripartite Selection Quota
Light flyweight (49 kg)
Flyweight (52 kg)
''*'' Both England and Wales boxers qualified but
Andrew Selby
Andrew Selby (born 25 December 1988) is a Welsh professional boxer who held the British flyweight title from 2016 to 2019. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2011 World Championships, Bronze at the 2013 World Championships, and gold a ...
beat
Khalid Yafai
Khalid "Kal" Yafai (; born 11 June 1989) is a British former professional boxer who held the WBA super-flyweight title from 2016 to 2020. As an amateur, he represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal at the 20 ...
in box-off for Olympic place.
Bantamweight (56 kg)
Lightweight (60 kg)
''*''
Wang Zhimin
Wang Zhimin (; born 8 August 1957) is a Chinese politician, a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and vice president of the Central Institute for Party History and Literature Research. He was the Director of the ...
from
China
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, who won the 2011 WSB Individual Championships at this weight, had his qualification withdrawn by the Chinese NOC.
Yerzhan Mussafirov from
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
, as losing finalist in that competition would have inherited the Olympic berth but was also withdrawn by his NOC.
Rachid Azzedine
Rachid Azzedine is a French boxer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 Augu ...
from
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
inherited the qualification place by virtue of his third-place finish.
Light welterweight (64 kg)
Welterweight (69 kg)
Middleweight (75 kg)
''*''
Sergiy Derevyanchenko
Serhiy Vyacheslavovich Derevyanchenko (; born 31 October 1985) is a Ukrainian professional boxer who has challenged three times for world middleweight titles; the IBF title in 2018; the IBF and IBO titles in 2019; and the WBC title in 2020. A ...
from
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
, who won the 2011 WSB Individual Championships at this weight, had his qualification withdrawn by the Ukrainian NOC.
Soltan Migitinov from
Azerbaijan
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inherited the qualification place by virtue of his second-place finish.
Light heavyweight (81 kg)
Heavyweight (91 kg)
Super heavyweight (+91 kg)
Women's events
Olympic Qualification System per Continent and by Weight Category.
* ( ) Tripartite Selection Quota
Flyweight (51 kg)
Lightweight (60 kg)
Middleweight (75 kg)
References
;General
London 2012 Olympic Games – Qualified Boxers’ List
;Specific
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Qualification for the 2012 Summer Olympics