The 2023 FIBA World Cup will be one of the qualifiers for men's basketball, and with qualifying competition resuming on the 30th of this month several teams have moved a step closer to the Paris field: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, India, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Phillipines, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela (France is also into the second round of WC qualification but are the host nation for the Olympics and therefore are already qualified)
For the first time in Olympic history, boxing will be fully gender-equal, with 124 men's and 124 women's spots up for grabs across thirteen weight categories (seven for men and six for women- this averages to about nineteen per weight category). Men will compete in the 51, 57, 63.5, 71, 80, 92 and +92 kilos and women will compete in the 50, 54, 57, 60, 66 and 75 kilo categories.
The 69-kilo category for both men and women has been removed
Olympic-by-Olympic Progression
Rio 2016: ten weight classes for men and three for women
Tokyo 2020: eight weight classes for men and five for women
Paris 2024: seven weight classes for men and six for women
Paris 2024 will also be the first gender-balanced Olympics (half male and half female participants)
Two mixed events will be added (twenty as compared to eighteen in Tokyo)
Weightlifting is seeing a decrease in quota places from the Tokyo numbers and over a hundred from the Rio numbers. Just 120 weightlifters will compete in Paris after 196 in Tokyo and over 200 in Rio. There will be ten events in total with five each for men and women. The men's categories will be 61, 73, 89, 102 and +102 kilos, while the women's categories will be the 49, 59, 71, 81 and +81 kilos.
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