Mini flyweight, also known as strawweight, minimumweight or super atomweight, is a weight class in combat sports.
The Dominican Republic competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Mebarek Soltani is a boxer from Algeria. He is the nephew of Hocine Soltani.
Suleiman Wanjau Bilali is a Kenyan light flyweight boxer. He has represented Kenya numerous times at international competitions.
Alfred Kotey was a Ghanaian professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2012. He held the WBO bantamweight title from 1994 to 1995 and at regional level the Commonwealth flyweight title from 1989 to 1990. As an amateur he represented Ghana at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Jackson Van Tonder Chauke is a South African professional boxer who has held the WBC International flyweight title since 2019. As an amateur he won silver medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2007 All-Africa Games, both in the flyweight division. He won the International Boxing Organization World Championship Title in his last fight on January 27, 2024 in London, United Kingdom.
Thomas Essomba is a Cameroonian-British professional boxer who has held the European bantamweight and Commonwealth flyweight titles. As an amateur, he represented Cameroon at the 2012 Olympics, reaching the round of 16 of the light-flyweight bracket.
Kennedy Kanyanta is a Zambian boxer who won the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the men's flyweight division and bronze at the 2007 AllAfrica Games as an amateur.
Masibulele Makepula in East London, South Africa) is a professional boxer and later became charismatic pastor.
Botswana competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The African nation sent seventeen athletes in three sports. For the first time in their Commonwealth Games history, Botswana won multiple medals, capturing three, including two in boxing.
Sande Muhamed Kizito is a Ugandan light flyweight boxer. He represented his native African country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he was defeated in the first round by Lithuania's Ivanas Stapovičius. Nicknamed "Sunday" he won the gold medal in the men's light flyweight division at the 1999 All-Africa Games.
Tanzania competed at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand by a nine-member strong contingent, collecting a total number of three medals.
Oteng Oteng is an amateur boxer from Botswana who qualified for the 2012 Olympics. He was born in Mookane.
Benson Gicharu Njangiru is a Kenyan amateur boxer who won silver at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and qualified for the 2012 Olympics. His occupation is police officer.
Sulley Shittu is a Ghanaian amateur fly/bantamweight, and professional bantamweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s who as an amateur represented Ghana at flyweight in the Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, losing to John McCafferty of the Republic of Ireland, won silver at the 1965 All-Africa Games in Brazzaville, won a gold medal at flyweight in the Boxing at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, represented Ghana at bantamweight in the Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, losing to Horst Rascher of West Germany, and won a gold medal at bantamweight in the Boxing at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland and as a professional won the African Boxing Union (ABU) bantamweight title, and Commonwealth bantamweight title.
Jackson "Action" Asiku is a Ugandan-Australian amateur flyweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer.
Louis Joseph Baise was a South African Olympic wrestler.
The men's flyweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1988 Summer Olympics. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 51 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 18 September to 2 October 1988. 44 boxers from 44 nations competed. Kim Kwang-sun won the gold medal.
Roumaysa Boualam is an Algerian amateur boxer. She won the gold medal in the women's minimumweight event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria. She is also a two-time gold medalist at the African Games. She competed at several editions of the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships.
Cape Verde competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the nation's seventh appearance at the Olympics, since its debut in 1996.
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