The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia was held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour.
The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each.
Five judges scored the fighters in real time and the boxer with the most points at the end was the winner.
[1] Like other Olympic combat sports, two bronze medals are awarded; in the case of boxing, both losing semi-finalists receive a bronze medal, with no further play-off.
Men competed in the following twelve events: 310 boxers from 77 nations participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics.