After seven days of thrilling action and more than 300 bouts, the home nation Brazil finished top of the medal table at the ‘World Boxing Cup – Brazil 2026, Foz Do Iguaça’.
The hosts enjoyed four victories on the final day of action at the Rafain Palace Hotel & Convention Centre which saw Luiz Oliveira (M60kg), Yuri Falcao (M65kg), Wanderley Pereira (M80kg) and Isaias Filho (M90kg) all finish on top of the podium with gold medals.
It was not all glory for the home nation though, as five members of the team had to settle for silver on a day when Brazil contested an astonishing nine finals.
In the men’s categories, light-middleweight (M70kg) Kaian Reis, and middleweight (M75kg) Thauan Silva, lost unanimously to Poland’s Damian Durkacz and Saidjamshid Jafarov of Azerbaijan respectively while Kaue Belini went down 4-1 to Kazakhstan’s Sultanbek Aibaruly at cruiserweight (M85kg).
It was the same story in the women’s weights where lightweight (W60kg) world champion Rebecca Santos lost on a 4:1 split to Kazakhstan’s Viktoriya Grafeyeva and at middleweight (W75kg) where Barabara Santos was unanimously outpointed by Norway’s Sunniva Hofstad, who won her fourth consecutive World Boxing Cup gold medal.
After Brazil, the next best performing nation was China which won all four of its finals on the last day of competition.
In the women’s weights, flyweight (W51kg) Xinyu Qi scored a 4:1 victory over France’s Romane Moulai and at bantamweight Yunman Gan (W54kg) edged a razor-thin 3:2 split over Sara Cirkovic of Serbia. Up at middleweight (W70kg) Liu Yang was more comfortable as she unanimously outpointed 2025 World Boxing Championship silver medallist, Lekeisha Pergoliti, of Australia.
The Chinese gold in the men’s weights went to Jiamao Zhang at bantamweight (M55kg) who won by walkover as Spain’s Rafael Lozano Serrano was forced to withdraw from the competition.
Third and fourth place in the medal table went to Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan which both had three winners on the final day of competition.
Kazakhstan’s third gold medal went to Valeriya Axenova, who defeated Hungary’s Zsofia Szira at heavyweight (W80kg) to emulate the achievements of her teammates, Viktoriya Grafeyeva and Sultanbek Aibaruly. For Azerbaijan, flyweight (M51kg), Subhan Mamedov, and super-heavyweight (M90kg+), Mahammad Abdullayev, joined teammate Saidjamshid Jafarov at the top of the podium.
The only other countries to win more than one final on the last day were Uzbekistan and Poland, which finished with two golds. Venezuela, Norway and Hungary each had a single gold medallist.
All of the results from the competition and other information including daily schedules and the draw is available HERE. All of the action from the competition can be viewed on the Confederação Brasileira de Boxe YouTube channel, available HERE.
The full list of all the medallists from the ‘World Boxing Cup – Brazil 2026, Foz Do Iguaça’ is below:
| Weight | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Women’s weights | |||
| W48kg | Farzona Fozilova UZB | Fatima Herrera MEX | Marta Lopez Del Arbol ESP |
| Tatiana Flores ARG | |||
| W51kg | Xinyu Qi CHN | Romane Moulai FRA | Alua Balkibekova KAZ |
| Noelle Haro USA | |||
| W54kg | Yunman Gan CHN | Sara Cirkovic SRB | Lauren Mackie ENG |
| Widad Bertal MAR | |||
| W57kg | Omailyn Alcala VEN | Kukhta Vladislava HUN | Shih Yi Wu TPE |
| Delfina Arancibia ARG | |||
| W60kg | Viktoriya Grafeyeva KAZ | Rebeca Santos BRA | Yu Tian CHN |
| Aneta Rygielska POL | |||
| W65kg | Navbakhor Khamidova UZB | Aida Abikeyeva KAZ | Oshin Derieuw BEL |
| Sacha Hickey ENG | |||
| W70kg | Liu Yang CHN | Lekeisha Pergoliti AUS | Isabella Winkler USA |
| Barbara Marcinkowska POL | |||
| W75kg | Sunniva Hofstad NOR | Barbara Santos BRA | Busra Isildar TUR |
| Emma Sue Greentree AUS | |||
| W80kg | Emilia Koterska POL | Sofia Sørensen NOR | Zhibek Zharaskyzy KAZ |
| N/A | |||
| W80kg+ | Valeriya Axenova KAZ | Zsofia Szira HUN | N/A |
| N/A | |||
| Men’s weights | |||
| M50g | Subhan Mamedov AZE | Issam Bensayar MAR | Martin Molina Salvador ESP |
| Anvarzhan Khodzhiev KGZ | |||
| M55kg | Jiamao Zhang CHN | Rafael Lozano Serrano ESP | Yasen Radev BUL |
| Rui Yamaguchi JPN | |||
| M60kg | Luiz Oliveira BRA | Salim Ellis Bey USA | Lounes Hamraoui FRA |
| Keoma Al Ahmadieh CAN | |||
| M65kg | Yuri Falcao BRA | Shion Nishiyama JPN | Gabriel Labrie CAN |
| Alexandru Paraschiv MDA | |||
| M70kg | Damian Durkacz POL | Kaian Reis BRA | Nabi Isgandarov AZE |
| Makan Traore FRA | |||
| M75kg | Saidjamshid Jafarov AZE | Thauan Silva BRA | Mateusz Urban POL |
| Gabriele Guidi Rontani ITA | |||
| M80kg | Wanderley Pereira BRA | Gabrijel Veočić CRO | Josh Ofori CAN |
| Dias Molzhigitov KAZ | |||
| M85kg | Sultanbek Aibaruly KAZ | Kaue Belini BRA | Fares Deroiche AUT |
| Valerij Walter GER | |||
| M90kg | Isaias Filho BRA | Enmanuel Reyes Pla ESP | Dean Nwokedi Chime ITA |
| Emrah Yaşar TUR | |||
| M90kg+ | Mahammad Abdullayev AZE | Davit Chaloyan ARM | Jakhongir Zokirov UZB |
| Omar Shiha NOR | |||
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