The weight categories for boxing at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games have been confirmed by Commonwealth Sport and Glasgow 2026, with seven weight classes for both men and women.
The decision means that Glasgow 2026 will be the first ever Commonwealth Games to feature gender parity in weight classes. It comes 12 years after Glasgow 2014 was the first ever Commonwealth Games to feature female boxing, when it included three women’s weight categories.
Commonwealth Sport’s decision follows the approach adopted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and means that the seven men and women’s weight classes at Glasgow 2026, will be the same as those at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (LA28).
The seven weight classes are:
The announcement of the weight classes is designed to provide clarity to athletes and coaches across the Commonwealth and represents represents an important step in the build-up to Glasgow 2026 that will enable National Federations to finalise training and selection plans.’
The boxing tournament at Glasgow 2026 will be managed and overseen by World Boxing.
World Boxing was launched in April 2023 with a mission to ensure that boxing remains at the heart of the Olympic movement. It held its first formal meeting with the IOC in May 2024 and on 25 February 2025, it was granted provisional recognition by the IOC as the International Federation (IF) within the Olympic Movement governing the sport of boxing at world level.