The women's

lightweight Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing. Boxing Professional boxing The lightweight division is over 130 pounds (59 kilograms) and up to 135 pounds (61.2 kilograms) weight class in the sport of boxing. Notable lightweight boxe ...

boxing competition at the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

was held from 12 to 19 August at the

Riocentro Riocentro is an exhibition and convention center located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Built in 1977, it is the largest exhibition center in Latin America. Notable events 1981 May Day attack On April 30, 1981, during a May Day music concert, Rio ...

Estelle Mossely Estelle Mossely is a French professional boxer who has held the IBO female lightweight title since 2019. As an amateur, she won gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2016 World Championships. As of October 2022, she is ranked as the wo ...

won gold beating

Yin Junhua Yin Junhua (Simplified Chinese:, born 27 August 1990) is a Chinese boxer from Xingtai. She won a silver medal in the women's lightweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, losing to Estelle Mossely Estelle Mossely is a French professional ...

in the final. The bronze medals were awarded to

Anastasia Belyakova Anastasia Belyakova (born 1 May 1993) is a Russian boxer. She competed in the women's lightweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disci ...

of Russia and

Mira Potkonen Mira Marjut Johanna Potkonen (née ''Miettinen'', born 17 November 1980) is a Finnish lightweight boxer. She won a bronze medal in the 60 kg category at the 2016 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the latte ...

of Finland, the latter being the country's only medal at the 2016 games.

Schedule

All times are

Brasília Time Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country (including its offshore islands) is divided into four standard time zones: UTC−02:00, UTC−03:00, UTC−04:00 and UTC−05:00. Time zones Fernando de Noronha time (UTC−02 ...

( UTC−3).

Results

References

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