Host city | Sardinia |
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Country | Italy |
Nations | 17 |
Athletes | 78 |
Dates | 6–11 June |
Main venue | Area Teleferica |
The 2006 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships were held in the Area Teleferica in Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy [1] from June 6 to June 11. This was the 1st ever edition of this annual competition, and was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.
78 fighters representing 17 federations competed in 13 weight divisions. Turkey was the most successful country with 2 gold, 4 silver and four bronze medals. [2] Italian star Simona Galassi retired from amateur boxing after winning gold in these games. [3]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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46 kg | Steluța Duță | Valeria Calabrese | Serpil Yassıkaya |
48 kg | Laura Tosti | Camelia Negrea | Jenny Hardings |
50 kg | Simona Galassi | Delphine Mancini | Ayse Yavuz |
52 kg | Sumeyra Kaya | Elena Walendzik | Saliha Ouchen |
54 kg | Karolina Michalczuk | Natalie Kalinowski | Mihaela Cijevschi |
57 kg | Dina Burger | Evelyn Coolens | Myriam Dellal |
60 kg | Gülsüm Tatar | Anna Kasprzak | Sandra Brugger |
63 kg | Vinni Skovgaard | Amanda Coulson | Süreyya Ağıl |
66 kg | Anna Ingman | Nurhayat Hicyakmazer | Yvonne Rasmussen None awarded |
70 kg | Aya Cissoko | Emine Ozkan | None awarded |
75 kg | Anita Ducza | Hatice Olgundeniz | Anna Środowska None awarded |
80 kg | Beata Małek | Ulrike Bruckner | None awarded |
86 kg | Mária Kovács | Şemsi Yaralı | Adriana Hosu |
2006 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championship | ||||||
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Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
1 | Turkey | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | |
2 | Poland | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
3 | Italy | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
4 | Hungary | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
5 | France | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
Romania | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||
7 | Denmark | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
Sweden | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
10 | Germany | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
11 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
England | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
13 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Total | 13 | 13 | 21 |
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