Bakhodir Jalolov, seen right here in his 2022 KO win over Jack Mulowayi, will vie for a second straight tremendous heavyweight gold. Photograph by Stephanie Trapp/Showtime
Staff USA will kick off their hunt for a gold medal on the 2024 Olympics on Saturday with their first bout within the girls’s 60-kilogram division, whereas Cuba’s Arlen Lopez and Julio Cesar La Cruz will start their quest for a 3rd gold.
Jajaira Gonzalez, a 27-year-old from Glendora, Calif. would be the first American boxer to take the ring in Paris, however can have a troublesome first spherical project as she faces off with 2016 gold medalist Estelle Mossely of France within the spherical of 32.
The U.S. crew can have a second boxer see motion on Sunday, July 28 when Roscoe Hill, 29, of Spring, Tex. sees motion in opposition to Omid Ahmadisafa, a 31-year-old Iranian kickboxer who’s representing the Refugee Olympic Staff, within the males’s 51-kilogram class. The U.S. can have yet another boxer in motion on Monday, July 29, when tremendous heavyweight Joshua Edwards faces Italy’s Diego Lenzi in males’s round-of-16 motion, with 57-kilogram boxer Alyssa Mendoza scheduled to face Mijgona Samadova of Tajikistan in round-of-32 competitors on Tuesday, July 30.
Two extra Individuals will see motion on Wednesday, July 31 when Omari Jones, 21, of Orlando, Fla. faces Chinese language Tapei’s Kan Chia Wei within the 71-kilogram round-of-16, and Jahmal Harvey, 21, of Oxon Hill, Md. faces Luiz Gabriel Oliveira, a 2023 Pan Am Video games bronze medalist from Brazil whom he has a 3-2 lifetime document in opposition to, within the males’s 57-kilogram round-of-16.
The ultimate Individuals scheduled to have their opening bouts shall be Jennifer Lozano and Morelle McCane, who each open their campaigns on Thursday, August 1. Lozano, the 50-kilogram boxer from Laredo, Tex. who drew a bye within the first spherical and can face the winner of Sunday’s round-of-32 bout between Pihla Kaivo Oja of Finland and Margaret Tembo of Zambia, whereas McCane, 29, of Cleveland will face Uzbekistan’s Navbakhor Khamidova within the spherical of ladies’s 66-kilogram round-of-16.
Staff USA hasn’t received a boxing gold since 2016, when Claressa Shields received again to again golds, whereas American males have had a for much longer drought, having not received a gold since 2004. On the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the USA earned three silvers and a bronze.
Lozano tells The Ring that she believes the U.S. crew will open a number of eyes on the Paris Video games.
“All I can say is that USA has not solely labored laborious however sacrificed and has turn out to be household,” stated Lozano, who earned silver on the 2023 Pan Am Video games. “This 12 months shall be USA Boxing’s largest historical past making crew for essentially the most gold medals in boxing. That goes for the lads as properly. USA males have an excellent likelihood of ending that streak.”
Arlen Lopez and Julio Cesar La Cruz will look to affix Laszlo Papp, Teofilo Stevenson and Felix Savon within the illustrious group of boxers who’ve received three Olympic golds.
Lopez, now 31, will see motion subsequent Friday, August 2 within the males’s 80-kilogram quarterfinals, when he faces the winner between the Philippines’ Eumir Marcial, a 2020 bronze medalist, and Uzbekistan’s Turabek Khabibullaev, who will meet on Tuesday. Lopez received the middleweight gold in 2016 and moved up in weight for 2020 to seize gold on the Tokyo Olympics.
La Cruz, who received the sunshine heavyweight gold on the Rio Video games in 2016 and heavyweight gold at Tokyo 2020, will face one other Cuban within the 92-kilogram round-of-16 on Sunday when he faces Loren Alfonso, who’s now representing Azerbaijan. The 2 fought as soon as earlier than in 2019, with La Cruz profitable a unanimous choice within the Czech Republic.
Regardless of lifting their ban on girls’s boxing final 12 months, Cuba didn’t qualify a girl for the Olympics. As such, the novice boxing powerhouse will solely have 5 boxers in Paris, together with Erislandy Álvarez (63.5 kg), Alejandro Claro (51 kg) and Saidel Horta (57 kg).
In different motion, males’s 57-kilogram boxer Carlo Paalam of the Philippines will start his quest to enhance off of his silver medal end in Tokyo when he faces Jude Gallagher of Eire subsequent Wednesday within the round-of-16. Paalam, 26, was compelled out of the primary world qualifier in March on account of a shoulder damage, however got here again sturdy to win his quota bout on the final likelihood qualifier in June to earn a spot on the Olympics.
Paalam shall be joined by his fellow Filipino silver medalist Nesthy Petecio, who will start her match on July 30 within the girls’s 57-kilogram round-of-32 in opposition to India’s Jaismine Lamboria. The winner of that bout will face France’s Amina Zidani, who received gold on the 2023 European Video games.
Hasanboy Dusmatov, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist from Uzbekistan, will return to the Olympics in Paris, going through Juanma Lopez de Jesus of Puerto Rico on July 30 within the males’s 51-kilogram round-of-16. His teammate, tremendous heavyweight Bakhodir Jalolov, will as soon as once more flip his consideration from his 14-0 (14 knockouts) professional profession as he seeks to repeat his gold medal efficiency from the 2020 Video games. The 30-year-old southpaw, who stands 6-foot-7, will face Omar Shiha on Monday, July 29 in round-of-16.
The primary gold medal match is scheduled for August 6 within the girls’s 60-kilogram occasion, whereas the final 4 finals shall be on August 10.
Olympic boxing will stream dwell in the USA on Peacock, with the complete schedule under, courtesy of Peacock.
Saturday, July 27
9:30 a.m. ET: Ladies’s Bantam (R32), Males’s Gentle (R32), & Extra
2:00 p.m. ET: Ladies’s Gentle (R32), Males’s Center (R32), & Extra
Sunday, July 28
5:00 a.m. ET: Males’s Heavy (R16), Ladies’s Fly & Welter (R32), & Extra
9:30 a.m. ET: Males’s Feather (R32), Ladies’s Welter (R32), & Extra
2:00 p.m. ET: Males’s Heavy (R16), Ladies’s Fly & Welter (R32), & Extra
Monday, July 29
5:00 a.m. ET: Males’s Tremendous Heavy (R16)
9:30 a.m. ET: Males’s & Ladies’s Gentle (R16), Males’s Tremendous Heavy (R16) & Extra
2:00 p.m. ET: Ladies’s Gentle (R16), Males’s Tremendous Heavy (R16), & Extra
Tuesday, July 30
5:00 a.m. ET: Males’s Fly & Center (R16), Ladies’s Feather (R32) & Extra
9:30 a.m. ET: Males’s Fly & Center (R16), Ladies’s Bantam (R16) & Extra
2:00 p.m. ET: Males’s Center (R16), Ladies’s Bantam (R16) & Extra
Wednesday, July 31
5:00 a.m. ET: Ladies’s Center (R16), Males’s Feather (R16), & Extra
9:20 a.m. ET: Ladies’s Gentle (QF), Males’s Welter (R16), & Extra
2:00 p.m. ET: Ladies’s Gentle (QF), Males’s Feather (R16), & Extra
Thursday, August 1
5:00 a.m. ET: Ladies’s Welter (R16), Males’s Heavy (QF), & Extra
9:30 a.m. ET: Ladies’s Bantam (QF), Males’s Gentle (QF), & Extra
2:00 p.m. ET: Males’s Heavy (QF), Ladies’s Bantam (QF), & Extra
Friday, August 2
9:30 a.m. ET: Males’s Tremendous Heavy (QF), Ladies’s Feather (R16), & Extra
2:00 p.m. ET: Males’s Tremendous Heavy (QF), Males’s Fly (QF), & Extra
Saturday, August 3
9:30 a.m. ET: Males’s Feather (QF), Ladies’s Gentle (SF), & Extra
2:00 p.m. ET: Ladies’s Gentle (SF), Males’s Welter (QF), & Extra
Sunday, August 4
5:00 a.m. ET: Males’s Center (SF), Ladies’s Bantam (SF) & Extra
9:30 a.m. ET: Males’s Heavy (SF), Ladies’s Bantam (SF), & Extra
Tuesday, August 6
3:30 p.m. ET: Ladies’s Gentle (Last), Males’s Welter (SF), & Extra
Wednesday, August 7
3:30 p.m. ET: Males’s Center, Gentle (Finals), & Extra
Thursday, August 8
3:30 p.m ET: Males’s Fly, Ladies’s Bantam (Finals), & Extra
Friday, August 9
3:30 p.m. ET: Males’s & Ladies’s Welter, Males’s Heavy, Ladies’s Fly (Finals)
Saturday, August 10
3:30 p.m. ET: Males’s & Ladies’s Feather, Ladies’s Center, Males’s Tremendous Heavy (Finals)
