light flyweight in English
noun
1
the lowest weight in amateur boxing, ranging up to 106 pounds (48 kg).
The United States boxing team arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, July 15 and has settled into the athletes’ village for a short acclimation camp before opening competition on Friday, June 20 with first round bouts in the light flyweight , bantamweight, lightweight, welterweight, and light heavyweight divisions.
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1. Qualification events were: 2014–2015 World Series of Boxing (WSB) – The two top ranked boxers at the end of the 2014–2015 season in each weight category (except light flyweight, heavyweight, and super heavyweight with one each).
2. ‘The provisional squad has light-flyweight Gabriel Kabwe, Bantamweight Lovemore Tembo and featherweights Otis Bwalya, Jonathan Mwila, Victor Kaonga, Tendai Shumba and Abias Silupumbwe.’ ‘But Ncita laughed off the Tanzanian's assertion saying his charge was the best fighter from the junior Bantamweight to the junior featherweight divisions.’