PARIS (July 25, 2024) – Team USA will have eight boxers competing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. These eight boxers learned their paths to gold, including their first-round opponents during Thursday’s Olympic Games tournament draw.
The Paris 2024 Olympic boxing tournament has 13 weight divisions, seven men’s and six women’s. Competition in Paris will begin on Saturday, July 27, before concluding on Saturday, August 10, at the Roland-Garros Stadium and the North Paris Arena.
Below is an in-depth look at Team USA’s path to gold for USA Boxing’s eight competitors.
Jajaira Gonzalez (Glendale, Calif.) will get Team USA started in Paris and will go head-to-head against the experienced Estelle Mossely out of France during the first day of competition. These two seasoned boxers will square off in the 60 kg weight division around 3:20 p.m. ET on July 27. The American will make her Olympic debut after qualifying during the Pan American Games in October, where she secured the bronze medal. Mossely will make her Olympic return after becoming the first French female Olympic boxing gold medalist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Mossely is 11-0 in her professional career. The 2016 gold medalist is a four-time French national champion and a two-time lightweight World Championship medalist.
Roscoe Hill (Spring, Texas) will be the lone American boxer representing Team USA on day two, Sunday, July 28. Hill will go up against Omid Ahmadisafa, who represents the Refugee Olympic Team, beginning at 11 a.m. ET. Hill qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the second World Qualification Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand. Hill has won two medals in the last two years, including a bronze medal at the 2023 Pan American Games in October.
Day three will include Team USA super heavyweight, Joshua Edwards (Houston, Texas), who takes on Italy’s Diego Lenzi. Edwards punched his ticket at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, where he won gold. Lenzi qualified for Paris at the first Olympic qualification tournament in Italy in March 2024. These two super heavyweights will take the ring on Monday, July 29, at approximately 6:36 a.m. ET.
Alyssa Mendoza (Caldwell, Idaho) will lead the way for the stars and the stripes on Tuesday, July 30, as she will face off against Mijgona Samadova from Tajikistan, starting at 11:38 a.m. ET. Mendoza is the youngest of the eight American boxers and makes her Olympic debut at just 20 years old, after punching her ticket at the second World Qualification Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand. The Caldwell, Idaho, native won three medals in 2023 and looks to carry that momentum to Paris.
Omari Jones (Orlando, Fla.) and Jahmal Harvey (Oxon Hill, Md.) each picked up opening-round byes, granting both competitors extra rest before stepping into the ring on Wednesday, July 31. Jones is one of Team USA’s leaders and captains this year and qualified for Paris at the first World Qualification Tournament. Jones will box against Kan Chia Wei out of Chinese Taipei. Chia Wei won silver at the 2022 Asian Games and placed fifth in 2018 at the same event. The two contenders will go head-to-head at 5:48 p.m. ET.
As for Harvey, he will go up against a similar opponent in Luiz Gabriel Oliveria in the 57 kg weight class. Harvey, a native of Oxon Hill, Md., has already squared off against the Brazilian five times in his career with wins in three of those bouts. The two featherweight boxers most recently competed at the 2023 Pan American Games semifinals, where Harvey won to punch his Olympic ticket. Harvey and Oliveira will square off for the sixth time around 10:02 a.m. ET.
Jennifer Lozano (Laredo, Texas) and Morelle McCane (Cleveland, Ohio) round out the eight for Team USA. Both boxers will start in the round of 16 and will need three wins each to medal. Lozano will get things started at 10:02 a.m. ET on Thursday, Aug. 1, and will take on the winner between Mexico’s Pihla Kaivo-Oja and Zambia’s Margaret Tembo.
McCane will face Navbakhor Khamidova out of Uzbekistan in the 66 kg weight class at 10:50 a.m. ET on Thursday, Aug. 1. Khamidova qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Second World Qualification Tournament. McCane went on to win silver at the Pan American Games where she punched her ticket to Paris. McCane is the fifth consecutive Olympic boxer from Cleveland and the first female Olympic boxer from her city.
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Team USA is being coached by USA Boxing Head Coach Billy Walsh (Colorado Springs, Colo.), along with National Resident Coach Timothy Nolan (Rochester, N.Y.), as well as National Development Coach Chad Wigle (Colorado Springs, Colo.), along with assistant coaches Adonis Frazier (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Christine Lopez (Rowlett, Texas).
Saturday, July 27-3:20 p.m. ET
60 kg: Jajaira Gonzalez, Glendale, Calif./USA vs Estelle Mossely/ FRA
Sunday, July 28- 5:00 a.m. ET
51 kg: Roscoe Hill, Spring, Texas/USA vs Omid Ahmadisafa/ EOR
Monday, July 29- 6:36 a.m. ET
92+ kg: Joshua Edwards, Houston, Texas/USA vs Diego Lenzi/ ITA
Tuesday, July 30- 11:38 a.m. ET
57 kg: Alyssa Mendoza, Caldwell, Idaho/USA, vs Mijgona Samadova/ TJK
Wednesday, July 31-
71 kg: Omari Jones, Orlando, Fla./USA vs Kan Chai Wei/ TPE-5:48 a.m. ET
57 kg: Jahmal Harvey, Oxon Hill, Md./USA vs Luiz Gabriel Oliveria/ BRA- 10:02 a.m. ET
Thursday, August 1
50 kg: Jennifer Lozano, Laredo, Texas/USA vs TBD, -10:02 a.m. ET
66 kg: Morelle McCane, Cleveland, Ohio/USA, Navbakhor Khamidova/ UZB- 10:50 a.m. ET
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