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Welterweight (64-69 kilograms), Women

Date24 July – 7 August 2021
StatusOlympic
LocationRyōgoku Kokugikan, Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
Participants18 from 18 countries

A new addition to the Olympic programme, the welterweight category had seen success for Asian fighters since the 2016 Olympics with World Championship medals from Kazakhstan, Chinese Taipei, India, and China. Even the World Champion was from the Asian part of Turkey. Busenaz Sürmeneli, a 23-year-old from the northwestern Turkish town of Bursa, became her country’s first ever boxing gold medallist.

Sürmeneli recorded unanimous points decisions in her first three contests before edging a hard-fought final with China’s Gu Hong. Gong started well but a turning point came in the second round when she was penalised a point for holding in addition to losing the round on the judges’ scorecards. The Chinese fighter fought back in the final round but by then the damage was done and Sürmeneli was ahead on three of the five scorecards. Lovlina Borgohain of India and Oshae Jones of the USA were the losing semi-finalists and took home the bronze medals.

PosCompetitorNOC
1Busenaz SürmeneliTURGold
2Gu HongCHNSilver
=3Lovlina BorgohainINDBronze
=3Oshae JonesUSABronze
=5Anna LysenkoUKR
=5Alcinda PanguanaMOZ
=5Chen Nien-ChinTPE
=5María MorontaDOM
=9Karolina KoszewskaPOL
=9Baison ManikonTHA
=9Nadine ApetzGER
=9Brianda Tamara CruzMEX
=9Oumayma Bel AhbibMAR
=9Elizabeth AkinyiKEN
=9Angela CariniITA
=9Myriam Da SilvaCAN
=17Shakhnoza YunusovaUZB
=17Saadat DalgatovaROC

Round One

Date24 July 2021 — 11:30
FormatWinner of each match advanced to round two.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #1Busenaz SürmeneliTUR
Match #224 Jul 11:30Karolina KoszewskaPOLDecisionShakhnoza YunusovaUZB
Match #3Oumayma Bel AhbibMAR
Match #4Anna LysenkoUKR
Match #5Nadine ApetzGER
Match #6Lovlina BorgohainIND
Match #7Angela CariniITA
Match #8Chen Nien-ChinTPE
Match #9Oshae JonesUSA
Match #10Brianda Tamara CruzMEX
Match #11Myriam Da SilvaCAN
Match #12María MorontaDOM
Match #13Elizabeth AkinyiKEN
Match #14Alcinda PanguanaMOZ
Match #1524 Jul 11:48Baison ManikonTHADecisionSaadat DalgatovaROC
Match #16Gu HongCHN

Round Two

Date27 July 2021 — 13:54
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #127 Jul 13:54Busenaz SürmeneliTURDecisionKarolina KoszewskaPOL
Match #227 Jul 14:12Anna LysenkoUKRDecisionOumayma Bel AhbibMAR
Match #327 Jul 14:27Lovlina BorgohainINDDecisionNadine ApetzGER
Match #427 Jul 14:42Chen Nien-ChinTPEDecisionAngela CariniITA
Match #527 Jul 19:39Oshae JonesUSADecisionBrianda Tamara CruzMEX
Match #627 Jul 19:54María MorontaDOMDecisionMyriam Da SilvaCAN
Match #727 Jul 20:12Alcinda PanguanaMOZReferee stops contestElizabeth AkinyiKEN
Match #827 Jul 20:27Gu HongCHNDecisionBaison ManikonTHA

Quarter-Finals

Date30 July 2021 — 12:03
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #130 Jul 12:03Busenaz SürmeneliTURDecisionAnna LysenkoUKR
Match #230 Jul 12:18Lovlina BorgohainINDDecisionChen Nien-ChinTPE
Match #330 Jul 18:03Oshae JonesUSADecisionMaría MorontaDOM
Match #430 Jul 18:18Gu HongCHNDecisionAlcinda PanguanaMOZ

Semi-Finals

Date4 August 2021 — 14:30
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the final match.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #104 Aug 14:30Busenaz SürmeneliTURDecisionLovlina BorgohainIND
Match #204 Aug 14:48Gu HongCHNDecisionOshae JonesUSA

Final Round

Date7 August 2021 — 15:15
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match 1/207 Aug 15:15Busenaz SürmeneliTURDecisionGu HongCHN