1st AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

1st AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament was held from January 23 to January 31, 2008 in Algiers, Algeria.

Qualifying

21 teams participated in this tournament:

Number in ( ) is total boxer in each country

Competition System

The competition system of the 1st AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament is the knockout round system. Each boxer fights one match per round.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight	Jafet Uutoni	Suleiman Bilali	Manyo Plange
Flyweight	Walid Cherif	Abdelillah Nhaila	Molla Getachew
Bantamweight	Abdelhalim Ouradi	Hicham Mesbahi	Khumiso Ikgopoleng
Featherweight	Mahdi Ouatine	Abdelkader Chadi	Alaa Shili
Lightweight	Saifeddine Nejmaoui	Hamza Kramou	Tahar Tamsamani
Light Welterweight	Driss Moussaid	Hamza Hassini	Hastings Bwalya
Welterweight	Hosam Bakr Abdin	Joseph Mulema	Choayeb Oussassi
Middleweight	Mohamed Hikal	Ahmed Saraku	Nabil Kassel
Light Heavyweight	Abdelhafid Benchebla	Mourad Sahraoui	Bastir Samir Unathi Jacobs
Heavyweight	Abdelaziz Touilbini	Mohamed Arjaoui	Boyomo David Assiene Tobias Mabuta Munihango
Super Heavyweight	Newfel Ouatah	Mohamed Amanissi	Stephane Gomis Haruna Osumanu

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Algeria (ALG)	4	2	2	8
2	Morocco (MAR)	2	4	1	7
3	Tunisia (TUN)	2	2	1	5
4	Egypt (EGY)	2	0	0	2
5	Namibia (NAM)	1	0	1	2
6	Ghana (GHA)	0	1	2	3
7	Cameroon (CMR)	0	1	1	2
8	Kenya (KEN)	0	1	0	1
9	Botswana (BOT)	0	0	1	1
	Ethiopia (ETH)	0	0	1	1
	Senegal (SEN)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1
	Zambia (ZAM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		11	11	13	35

Symbol of AIBA

References

• 1st AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament

See also

• 1st AIBA European 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament
• 2nd AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament