The Featherweight competition was the fourth-lowest weight featured at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and was held at the Mediolanum Forum. Featherweights were limited to a maximum of 57 kilograms in body mass.
| Gold | Vasyl Lomachenko |
| Silver | Sergey Vodopyanov |
| Bronze | Oscar Valdez |
| Bahodirjon Sooltonov |
Vasyl Lomachenko (champion)
Bahodirjon Sooltonov (semifinals)
Luis Enrique Porozo (third round)
Oscar Valdez (semifinals)
Li Yang (second round)
Satoshi Shimizu (first round)
Akhil Kumar (first round)
Sergey Vodopyanov (final)