1st AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Tournament details
Host nation	Algeria
Dates	January 23 – January 31
Teams	21
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Official website
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Last updated April 20, 2024

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 details	Jafet Uutoni	Suleiman Bilali	Manyo Plange
Flyweight details	Walid Cherif	Abdelillah Nhaila	Molla Getachew
Bantamweight details	Abdelhalim Ouradi	Hicham Mesbahi	Khumiso Ikgopoleng
Featherweight details	Mahdi Ouatine	Abdelkader Chadi	Alaa Shili
Lightweight details	Saifeddine Nejmaoui	Hamza Kramou	Tahar Tamsamani
Light Welterweight details	Driss Moussaid	Hamza Hassini	Hastings Bwalya
Welterweight details	Hosam Bakr Abdin	Joseph Mulema	Choayeb Oussassi
Middleweight details	Mohamed Hikal	Ahmed Saraku	Nabil Kassel
Light Heavyweight details	Abdelhafid Benchebla	Mourad Sahraoui	Bastir Samir Unathi Jacobs
Heavyweight details	Abdelaziz Touilbini	Mohamed Arjaoui	Boyomo David Assiene Tobias Mabuta Munihango
Super Heavyweight details	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 entries)		11	11	13	35

Symbol of AIBA

KO	DSQ	BDSQ	JURY	RSC	RSCH	RSCI	RSCOS	NC	WO	RET	R
Knockout	Disqualified	Both disqualified	Result determined by jury votes	Referee stop contest	Referee stop contest by head blow	Referee stop contest by injured	Referee stop contest outscored	No contest	Walkover	Retired	Round

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