Boxing At The 2000 Summer Olympics
The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each. Five judges scored the fighters in real time and the boxer with the most points at the end was the winner.
Like other Olympic combat sports, two bronze medals are awarded; in the case of boxing, both losing semi-finalists receive a bronze medal, with no further play-off. As a result, the quarter-final essentially equates to a bronze medal match, a semi-final to a silver medal match, and the final to a gold medal match. 48 medals are therefore available, half of which are bronze medals.
A total of 312 men, representing 74 nations, competed in twelve weight categories, with 28 athletes in each category except for the heavyweight and super heavyweight divisions, where there were sixteen each. Cuba topped the overall boxing medal table with four golds and six in total. Russia won the most medals in boxing, seven.
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