World Boxing Cup

China finished on top of the medal table at the ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ after a fantastic last day of competition saw the home nation win five out of the six finals it contested at the Guiyang Olympic Sports Centre.

The Chinese were dominant in the women’s competition where it won half of the weight categories with victories for Yu Wi at flyweight (W51kg), Liu Yang at light-middleweight (W70kg), middleweight Ziyo Bao (W75kg), Xiaomeng Wang at light-heavyweight (W80kg) and Yilian Zhan in the heavyweight division (W80kg+).

The only disappointment on a triumphant final day for the hosts came in the men’s bantamweight (M55kg) category where Jiamao Zhang had to settle for silver against the USA’s Lorenzo Patricio.

The remaining gold medals in the women’s weights went to India’s Jyoti Jyoti at light-flyweight (W48kg) and Kazakhstan’s Nazym Kyzaibay and Viktoriya Grafeyeva at bantamweight (W54kg) and lightweight (W60kg) respectively.

In one of the stories of the competition, Brazil’s two time-Olympic medallist and one-time lightweight IBF world champion, Beatriz Ferreira, made a triumphant return to Olympic-style boxing, with a unanimous victory in the welterweight (W65kg) final over England’s Sacha Hickey.

The men’s weights saw traditional powerhouses Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan each finish with three golds, while French men finished top of the podium in two categories as Hugo Grau and Junior Tadah beat the USA’s Marcus Luther and Italy’s Paolo Caruso at welterweight (M65kg) and cruiserweight (M85kg) respectively.

The other two countries that enjoyed gold medal success in the men’s weights were the USA, with Lorenzo Patricio’s bantamweight victory, and Azerbaijan, which saw middleweight Saidjamshid Jafarov secure his second consecutive World Boxing Cup gold with a unanimous win over 2025 World Boxing Championships silver medallist Rami Kiwan of Bulgaria.

The full list of all the medallists from the ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ is below:

Weight	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women’s weights
W48kg	Jyoti Jyoti IND	Farzona Fozilova UZB	Angelika Krysztoforska POL
			Fatima Herrera MEX
W51kg	Yu Wu CHN	Minaksi Minaski IND	Laura Fuertes Fernandez ESP
			Romane Moulai FRA
W54kg	Nazym Kyzaibay KAZ	Sirine Charaabi ITA	Wassila Lkhadiri FRA
			Natnicha Chongprongklang THA
W57kg	Nigina Uktamova UZB	Prachi IND	Ziyi Chen CHN
			Amina Zidani FRA
W60kg	Viktoriya Grafeyeva KAZ	Yu Ting Lin TPE	Sitora Turdibekova UZB
			Chengyu Yang CHN
W65kg	Beatriz Ferreira BRA	Sacha Hickey ENG	Aida Abikeyeva KAZ
			Kinga Krowka POL
W70kg	Liu Yang CHN	Maelys Richol FRA	Lekeisha Pergoliti AUS
			Chantelle Reid ENG
W75kg	Ziyi Bao CHN	Tammara Thibeault CAN	Agata Kaczsmarska POL
			Aziza Zokirova UZB
W80kg	Xiaomeng Wang CHN	Davina Michel FRA	Emilia Koterska POL
			Valeriya Axenova KAZ
W80kg+	Yilian Zhan CHN	Oltinoy Sotimboeva UZB	Dina Islambekova KAZ
			Elzbieta Wojcik POL

Men’s weights
M50g	Sanzhar Tashkenbay KAZ	Asilbek Jalilov UZB	Martin Molina Salvador ESP
			Huthaifa Eshish JOR
M55kg	Lorenzo Patricio USA	Jiamao Zhang CHN	Jaeyong Shin KOR
			Nikhil Nikhil IND
M60kg	Abdumalik Khalokov UZB	Luiz Oliveira BRA	William Hewitt ENG
			Radoslav Rosenov BUL
M65kg	Hugo Grau FRA	Marcus Luther USA	Ali Habibinezhad IRI
			Alexandru Paraschiv MDA
M70kg	Ablaikhan Zhussupov KAZ	Deepak Deepak IND	Zeyad Eashash JOR
			Makan Traore FRA
M75kg	Saidjamshid Jafarov AZE	Rami Kiwan BUL	Mateusz Urban POL
			Gabriele Guidi Rontani ITA
M80kg	Javokhir Ummataliev UZB	Wanderley Pereira BRA	Murad Allahverdiyev AZE
			Minseong Kim KOR
M85kg	Junior Tadah FRA	Paolo Caruso ITA	Akmaljon Isroilov UZB
			Jugnoo Jugnoo IND
M90kg	Turabek Khabibullaev UZB	Isaac Okoh ENG	Xuezhen Han CHN
			Loren Berto Alfonso Dominguez AZE
M90kg+	Aibek Oralybay KAZ	Nikita Putilov GER	Joel Ramos BRA
			Arman Makhanov UZB

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Uzbekistan enjoyed a successful sixth day at the ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ as its boxers secured seven victories in the semi-finals. It means that Uzbekistan will contest tomorrow’s finals after semi-finals wins for Farzona Fozilova (W48kg), Abdumalik Khalokov (M60kg), Oltinoy Sotimboeva (W80+kg), Turabek Khabibullaev (M90kg), Asilbek Jalilov (M50kg), Nigina Uktamova (W57kg) and Javokhir Ummataliev (M80kg).

China will have the second most boxers in tomorrow’s finals with six, closely followed by Kazakhstan with five and Brazil with four.

In the Women’s competition, China’s Liu Yang secured a victory over Australia’s Lekeisha Pergoliti in the Light Middleweight (70kg) category with a 5:0 unanimous decision. Yang will face France’s Maelys Richol after her 4:1 victory over 2024 Paris Olympian, Chantelle Reid of England.

Two-time Olympian Tammara Thibeault of Canada secured her place in the final after defeating Poland’s Agata Kaczsmarka 5:0 in the Middlewight (75kg) category. Thibeault will face China’s Ziyi Bao who also got through her semi-final bout against Uzbekistan’s Aziza Zokirova via unanimous decision.

On another day of top-class action, USA secured victories in both of their semi-finals as Lorenzo Patricio and Marcus Luther got the better of their opponents, Indian Nikhil Nikhil and Iran’s Ali Habibinezhad via 5:0 unanimous decisions in the Men’s Bantamweight (55kg) and Welterweight (65kg) competitions respectively.

Possibly the biggest upset was in the men’s Cruiserweight (85kg) where Italy’s unranked Paolo Caruso secured a 3:2 split decision victory over World Boxing Championships gold medallist and number one ranked, Akmaljon Isroilov of Uzbekistan. The Italian will meet France’s Junior Tadah in the final, who got the better of India’s Jugnoo Jugnoo in the semis.

In the men’s Lightweight (60kg) competition, we’ll be seeing a repeat of the 2025 World Boxing Championships final after Uzbekistan’s Abdumalik Khalokov beat Bulgaria’s Radoslav Rosenov 4:1, to set-up a final with Luiz Oliveira of Brazil who secured a 4:1 split decision win over England’s William Hewitt.

The only men’s finalist not to fight on day six was Hugo Grau of France who progress into the finals after Moldova’s Alexandru Paraschiv pulled out of the competition.

All of today’s results and information about the tournament, including daily schedules and details of the draw, are available at: https://chn.xboxing.world/.

Day seven will feature two session of boxing starting at 12:00 and 18:30 (local time), consisting of 20 bouts. To watch the action on finals day, click HERE.

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DAY FIVE of the ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ saw the competition head deep into the medal stages with 52 quarter-final and semi-final bouts at the Guiyang Olympic Sports Centre.

Uzbekistan emerged as the most successful nation on the day with six wins that included a unanimous victory for 2024 Olympic gold medallist and current world number one, Adbumalik Khalokov, who defeated the USA’s Salim Ellis-Bey in the men’s lightweight (M60kg) competition.

He will meet the world number seven, Radoslav Rosenov of Bulgaria in Saturday’s semi-final, after he secured a 5:0 win over Shunsuke Kitamota of Japan.

In the other side of the draw for what is one of the blue ribband weight categories at this event, world number three Luiz Gabriel of Brazil comfortably outpointed Canada’s Keoma Al Ahmadieh to set-up a semi-final with Will Hewitt after the Englishman secured a 3:2 split decision victory over Paris 2024 silver medallist Munarbek Seiitbek Uulu of Kyrgyzstan.

Hewitt was one of three English winners on a mixed day for his team in which 2025 World Boxing Championships bronze medallist Chantelle Reid outpointed the USA’s Isabella Winkler at light-middleweight (W70kg) and Sacha Hickey progressed at welterweight (W65kg) but saw defeats for his twin brother Patrick Hewitt (M70kg) and teammates Patris Mughalzai (M65kg), Dimeji Shittu(M80kg) and Matthew Williams (90kg+).

The latter lost out to world number one Aibek Oralbay of Kazakhstan who will meet Brazil’s Joel Ramos on Saturday’s semi-final. The winner will face either Germany’s Nikita Putilov or Arman Makhanov of Uzbekistan, who face off in the other half of the draw.

In the women’s competition, Lin Yu Ting of Chinese Taipei secured an impressive unanimous win over Brazilian world champion Rebeca De Santos to set-up a semi-final with China’s world number six, Chengu Yang. The winner will face either Kazakhstan’s world number four, Viktoriya Grafeyeva, or Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan in Sunday’s final.

The other Uzbek female that enjoyed success on day five was featherweight (W57kg) Nigina Uktamova who got the better of Brazil’s Jessica Coutinho with a 5:0 decision and will meet the home nation’s Ziyi Chen in the semi-final.

Day six will see 40 semi-final bouts that includes a potential blockbuster in the women’s welterweight division where Kazakhstan’s world number two, Aida Abikeyeva, will clash with two-time Olympic medallist, Beatriz Ferreira of Brazil. The winner will meet Kinga Krowka of Poland or England’s Sacha Hickey who will fight it out in the other semi.

All of today’s results and information about the tournament, including daily schedules and details of the draw, are available at: https://chn.xboxing.world/.

Day six will feature two sessions of boxing starting at 12:00 and 18:30 (local time), consisting of 40bouts. To watch the action in ring A, click HERE. To watch the action in ring B, click HERE.

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DAY FOUR of the ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ saw 20 bouts take place in a single session at the Guiyang Olympic Sports Centre, which featured action in the women’s flyweight (W51kg) and bantamweight (W54kg) categories and the men’s welterweight (M65kg) division.

France was the most successful country on the day with the three wins. 

The standout performance was in the women’s bantamweight competition where Wassila Lkhadiridefeated the 2020 Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist and world number one, Hsiao-Wen Huang of Chinese Taipei, on a 4:1 split decision to guarantee at least a bronze medal.  

She will meet Italy’s Sirine Charaabi in Saturday’s semi-final, after she outpointed Tati De Jesus of Brazil.

The other French winners on the day were Hugo Grau who defeated the host nation’s Xin Jin in the men’s welterweight category and Romane Moulai in the women’s flyweight division who secured a 5:0 win over Valeria Amparan of Mexico.

Moulai will face Uzbekistan’s Feruza Kazakova in the quarter-finals of the women’s flyweightcategory, which also features an enticing clash between 2025 World Boxing Championships light-flyweight gold medallist, Minakshi Minakshi from India, and Kazakhstan’s Alua Balkibekova who is ranked three in world at flyweight.

The other action in the men’s welterweight division saw victories for the USA’s Marcus Luther who scored a superb 3:2 victory over Brazilian world number three, Yuri Falcao. He will meet Mohamed Siala of Germany in tomorrow’s quarter-final.  

In the other quarter-finals, England’s Patris Mughalzai will face Ali Habibinezhad of Iran; MirzokhidImannnazarov of Kyrgyzstan will box Moldova’s Alexandru Paraschiv and Bartlomiej Roskowicz will take-on Hugo Grau, after they all enjoyed victories today.

All of today’s results and information about the tournament, including daily schedules and details of the draw, are available at: https://chn.xboxing.world/.

Day five will feature two sessions of boxing starting at 12:00 and 18:30 (local time), consisting of 52 bouts. All the action will be livestreamed on World Boxing’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@officialworldboxing

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Day three of the ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ saw 44 more bouts as Uzbekistan delivered a show of strength with four victories, including a unanimous win for paris 2024 gold medallist and world number one, Abdumalik Khalokov, who made his first appearance in the tournament.

Competing in the men’s lightweight division (M60kg), which features some of the finest boxers in the world, Khalokov was rarely troubled as he swept to a unanimous victory, which included a knockdown in the final round, over Wilson Solorzano of Venezuela.

He will meet Salim Ellis Bey of the USA in his quarter-final after the American scored an excellent 5-0 win over Kazakhstan’s Serik Temirezhanov.

Waiting for them in the other side of the draw is Brazil’s world number two Luiz Gabriel De Oliveira, who defeated Mahammadali Ashiraliyev of Azerbaijan to set-up a quarter-final with Canada’s Keoma Al Ahmadieh.

The other Uzbek men to win on the day included World Boxing Championships light-heavyweight (M80kg) gold medallist, Javokhir Ummataliev, with a split decision win over Sabyrzhan Akkalykov of Kazakhstan and Shavkatjon Boltaev who defeated Korea’s Joonsu Kim at light middleweight (M70kg).

For the women, Sitora Turdibekova secured Uzbekistan’s only female victory as she upset Japan’s world ranked number five, Ayaka Taguchi, in the lightweight (W60kg) division.  

It was one of two upsets for Japan on-the-day, who also saw World Boxing Championships silver medallist and world number three, Sewonrets Okazawa, lose unanimously to Deepak Deepak of India in the men’s light-middleweight (M70kg) division.

Other countries that enjoyed success on day three of the competition included home nation China, Azerbaijan, Brazil, England, India, Mongolia and South Korea who all had three wins each.

All of today’s results and information about the tournament, including daily schedules and details of the draw, are available at: https://chn.xboxing.world/.

Day four will feature two sessions of boxing starting at 12:00 and 18:30 (local time), consisting of 44bouts. All of the action will be livestreamed on World Boxing’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@officialworldboxing

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The second day of action at the ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ delivered some thrilling matchups with 55 bouts taking place across two sessions at the Guiyang Olympic Sports Centre.

Poland enjoyed a successful day with five wins, spearheaded by 2025 heavyweight (W80kg+) World Boxing Champion Agata Kaczmarska, who is now competing at middleweight (W75kg). 

The Pole showed that she is equally capable at the new weight as she secured a unanimous victory over 2025 World Boxing Championship bronze medallist, Emma-Sue Greentree of Australia to set-up a mouthwatering quarter-final with former world champion, Tammara Thibeault  of Canada, who is making a return to Olympic boxing, after spending the last two years focusing on her career as a professional boxer.

Other big name clashes on the day, saw Uzbekistan’s world number one Turabek Khabibullaev edge a 3:2 split decision against Kazakhstan’s Paris silver medallist Nurbek Oralbay who was competing at heavyweight (M90kg) having more recently enjoyed success at cruiserweight (M85kg) where he is ranked number three in the world.

Another highly seeded boxer that did not have it all her own way was the USA’s World Boxing Championships silver medallist and number four seed, Yoseline Perez, who lost unanimously to Natnicha Chongprongklang of Thailand at bantamweight (W54kg).

Chongprongklang will face Lauren Mackie in her quarter-final, after the English women disposed of Hong Kong’s Gun Ying Lai in under three minutes with a first-round stoppage.

Hosts China enjoyed another good day as its men and women racked-up six more wins, the most of any nation. Kazakhstan earned four victories followed by Brazil, France, India, Mexico, USA and Uzbekistan who all picked up three wins.

All of the information about the tournament, including results and details of the draw, are available at: https://chn.xboxing.world/

Wednesday’s boxing will feature two sessions starting at 12:00 and 18:30 (local time), consisting of 44 bouts in total. All of the action will be livestreamed on World Boxing’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@officialworldboxing

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Host nation China secured the most victories on day one of boxing at the ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ with six of their boxers earning wins to start the tournament.

Xinlin Chen (M60kg), Xuezhen Han (M90kg), Xiaomeng Wang (W80kg), Ziyi Bao (W75kg), Huiyang Tang (M50kg) and Danabieke Bayikewuzi (M90kg+) were successful on home soil as the second World Boxing Cup of the year got underway.

Canada’s Tammara Thibeault (W75kg) delivered a confident unanimous decision victory against India’s Sanamacha Chanu Thokchom on her return to Olympic-style boxing. It was the Canadian’s first appearance since Paris as she looks to qualify for a third Olympics in LA in two years’ time. 

Kazakhstan was the next best performing nation with five wins on Monday. Their squad once again includes the Oralbay brothers, Aibek (M90kg+) and Nurbek (M90kg). Aibek, who won gold at the inaugural World Boxing Championships 2025 in Liverpool, beat USA’s Nnajai Wright via 5:0 decision. Meanwhile, Paris silver medallist, Nurbek, earned a stoppage against Korea’s Gichae Kim.

Poland closed out the day one podium with four wins, including World Champion Agata Kaczmarska (W75kg) against Germany’s Helena Sophie Engels. 25 different nations picked up at least one win on Monday.

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Tuesday’s boxing will feature three more sessions starting at 11:00, 16:00 and 20:00 (local time). TheWorld Boxing Cup: China 2026 is taking place at the Guiyang Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasiumfrom 15-21 June 2026.

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More than 330 boxers from 44 National Federations are registered to compete at the ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ which will take place at the Guiyang Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium, 15-21 June 2026.

The draw, schedule, full results and all competition information is available at https://chn.xboxing.world/

It is the second World Boxing Cup of the year, following the ‘World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2026 – Foz do Iguaçu’ in February, when the home nation topped the medal table followed by China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Poland.

The registered entries for Guiyang City, feature strong teams from India and Uzbekistan who are sending men and women to compete in all 20 weight categories. Other countries sending large teams include Kenya with 19 representatives and Kazakhstan with 18. 

The line-up features a number of leading boxers and includes two women making a return to Olympic boxing from professional boxing.

At middleweight (W75kg), Canada’s multiple gold medallist and two-time Olympian, Tammara Thibeault, will be making her first appearance in an Olympic boxing competition since Paris 2024 as she aims to combine her professional career with qualifying for LA28.

She is joined by Brazil’s two-time Olympic medallist and one-time IBF lightweight world champion, Beatriz Ferreira, who returns to the Olympic-style format at welterweight (W65kg).

Ferreira is part of 12 strong Brazilian line-up that includes Luiz Oliveira (M60kg), Yuri Falcao (M65kg) and Wanderley Pereira (M80kg), who won medals in the first World Boxing Cup of 2026.

The competition in Guiyang City is the first time China has hosted a World Boxing Cup event and features an impressive home nation line-up of 19 boxers that includes 2024 Olympic gold medallist, Wu Yu (W51kg), along with, Jiamao Zhang (M55kg) and Liu Yang (W70kg), who won gold at the World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2026.

Medals will be contested across 20 weight divisions, 10 each for men and women, with World Boxing ranking points up for grabs. Preliminary rounds will be held across two rings transitioning to one ring for the semi-finals and finals.

The official draw will take place on Sunday 14 June at 18:30 (local time) with action getting underway on Monday 15 June. There will be three sessions in the preliminary rounds.

The competition will be streamed live on the World Boxing YouTube channel HERE.

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