Brazil topped the team rankings at the Panamerican Games

Seven strong countries earned gold medals in the 13 boxing finals at the Panamerican Games in Santiago de Chile.

The number of the participating boxers was altogether 174 including 76 female and 98 male athletes in Santiago de Chile and among them 30 qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, and EAI individual athletes from Guatemala were the 27 participating countries in this Panamerican Games.

Brazil’s Carolina De Almeida, Jucielen Romeu, Maria Barbara Dos Santos and Beatriz Ferreira earned four gold medals for the South American boxing power in the Panamerican Games.

Canada’s Tammara Thibeault, the World Champion and Commonwealth Games winner, won all of her contests in this Olympic cycle and Panama’s Atheyna Bylon was also not able to stop her in the final of the middleweight (75kg).

United States’ Jahmal Harvey eliminated his main rival, Brazil’s Luiz Gabriel Oliveira already in the semi-finals and he had another brilliant performance in the final against Cuba’s World silver medallist Saidel Horta.

Canada’s Wyatt Sanford eliminated the three-time World Champion Cuban veteran, Lazaro Alvarez in the preliminary stage and no one was able to stop him to get the gold medal at the men’s light welterweight (63.5kg).

Mexico’s Marco Alonso Verde was one of the favourites at the men’s light middleweight (71kg) in Santiago de Chile and he had a very difficult road to the title but he succeeded over his rivals including Jose Gabriel Rodriguez of Ecuador.

Cuba’s two-time Olympic Champion veterans such as Arlen Lopez and Julio Cesar La Cruz both defeated their Brazilian final opponents, Wanderley Pereira and Keno Machado which means both defended their Panamerican Games titles.