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Which competition
can I enter

England Boxing runs four national championships and each one is a closed set of birth years, not an age on the day. Put your year of birth and your weight in and this says which you are eligible for, and which category you would be in.

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Need to know what the cut looks like? The weight class page does the timeline, and refuses to give one to an under-18.

The boxer

England Boxing works in birth years rather than ages, so this is the whole of the age question.
Optional. Leave it out and you get the competitions without the category.
Put a year of birth in and the competitions appear here.
Where this comes from, and what it deliberately will not tell you

The five official England Boxing 2026 documents, parsed rather than summarised, and read by two people independently who agreed on every category and every marker. The same data drives the weight class page, and a check in this repository fails the build if the two copies ever stop agreeing, because one page telling a boxer they are in a category the other does not have is worse than either page not existing.

Birth years, not ages. Every England Boxing championship is defined by a closed set of years of birth. A boxer who turns 19 in March is not "a Youth until March", they are in whatever competition their birth year puts them in for the whole season. That is why this asks for a year and not a date.

Junior and Schools are listed and never given a weight category, and that is a decision rather than a gap. Their categories are not on this site at all, because they are under-18 competitions and a weight-loss plan for a growing boxer is not a web page's job. You get told you are eligible and told to speak to your club, which is the correct answer.

A category is a band with a floor. At the general weigh-in a boxer's weight must neither exceed the maximum of their category nor fall below the minimum, so being under a category is a real problem with the opposite solution to being over it. This says which band you are in, and says plainly when you are under the lightest one.

What it is not. Eligibility is not entry. Clubs enter boxers, medicals and records matter, and a national championship has qualifying rounds before it. This answers which door exists, not whether you are going through it.

Knowing which competition you are eligible for is the easy part. Arriving on weight, strong, and not having run yourself into the ground getting there, is the part with a plan behind it.

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