The organizers of next year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics revealed the competition schedule for boxing here on Wednesday, finalizing all competition dates for next year’s Summer Games.
The schedule for the Tokyo Olympics was almost complete inApril, but it was unclear whether boxing would be included as there were aseries of organizational management issues.
Following the formal decision on boxing last month, theorganizing committee announced the boxing schedule on Wednesday, reports Xinhuanews agency.
According to the organizers, boxing events will be heldbetween July 25 and August 9, 2020, at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan. The Olympicswill feature five weight categories for women and eight for men.
The finals will be held from August 4 and the last six days,among which the first will be women’s featherweight.
The boxing tickets were not included in the firstapplication for the lottery in May, and will be included in the second lotterysale in the fall. The International Olympic Committee last month resolved tokeep the sport on the programme after deciding to strip the InternationalBoxing Association of its right to oversee the sport in Tokyo due to unresolvedgovernance issues.IOC member and International GymnasticsFederation chief Morinari Watanabe has been appointed to head a special taskforce to organize the boxing qualifiers and the Tokyo competition.