The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that, before the Paris Olympics, they will organize 2 qualifying tournaments. They will replace IBA to organize qualifying and Olympic finals of Boxing. Time and location of 2 Olympic Games of 2024 Boxing subjects are also informed by the members soon, specifically as follows:
– First Olympic qualifying: takes place from February 29 to 12 at Busto Arsizio, Italy.
– The second Olympic qualifying round: takes place from May 23 to June 5 in Bangkok, Thailand.
In each Olympic qualifying round, IOC will spend a different number of tickets attending the Olympics at each weight class. According to the Paris Olympic Games, Boxing will have 13 weight classes for fighters to compete. Men's boxing has 7 weight classes, while women's boxing has 6 weight classes, with criteria towards sports equality.
On that basis, according to information iThethao.vn Noting, Vietnamese boxing teams will attend both Olympic qualifiers. The goal of Boxing Vietnam is likely to win at least 1 ticket to the Olympics. Earlier, in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Boxing Vietnam had 2 tickets from Nguyen Van Duong and Nguyen Thi Tam.
One of the advantages of Boxing Vietnam before the Paris Olympic qualifying round is that IOC distributes quite a lot of tickets in the female boxing category. This is also the strength of Boxing Vietnam, when the female boxing team has many international athletes, has won high results in foreign tournaments.
In the weight of 50kg, boxer Nguyen Thi Tam is considered to be the No. 1 candidate representing Boxing Vietnam to attend the Paris Olympic Games. Nguyen Thi Tam is the highest -class boxer of Boxing Vietnam ever. She has won the SEA Games twice twice, as well as the World Medal of 2023, Asian gold medals 2022, 2017.
Meanwhile, in the 54kg weight class, candidate No. 1 is Vo Thi Kim Anh. An Giang boxer is at the peak of her form, when she has no opponent in the national championships recently. Kim Anh won the gold medal in Thailand to expand 2022, the tournament has many world -class boxers participating in the competition.
Besides Nguyen Thi Tam and Vo Thi Kim Anh, Boxing Vietnam has a number of notable fighters that can play in the Olympic qualifying round. They are Nguyen Thi Thanh Hao (57kg female class, who attended the 2023 World Championship), Ha Thi Linh (60kg female class, 2 times the SEA Games champion, attending ASIAD 2023), Luu Diem Quynh (75kg female, ASIAD 2023).