Boxing at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Boxing at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Forum Centre, Wythenshawe
Dates	July 26 - August 3, 2002
Competitors	217 from 43 nations
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The boxing tournaments at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester took place from July 26 to August 3 at the Forum Centre, and the Manchester Evening News Arena. ^{[1] [2]}

Competition format

The events competed in were as follows:

• Light flyweight  (48kg)
• Flyweight  (51kg)
• Bantamweight  (54kg)
• Featherweight  (57kg)
• Lightweight  (60kg)
• Light welterweight  (63.5kg)
• Welterweight  (67kg)
• Light middleweight  (71kg)
• Middleweight  (75kg)
• Light heavyweight  (81kg)
• Heavyweight  (91kg)
• Super heavyweight  (+91kg)

Competition schedule

P

Preliminary rounds

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Date →	Fri 26	Sat 27	Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Wed 31	Thu 1	Fri 2	Sat 3
Light flyweight				P		¼	½		F
Flyweight	P		P			¼	½		F
Bantamweight	P	P			¼		½		F
Featherweight	P			P		¼	½		F
Lightweight		P	P		¼		½		F
Light welterweight		P	P		¼		½		F
Welterweight		P	P			¼	½		F
Light middleweight		P		P		¼	½		F
Middleweight				P		¼	½		F
Light heavyweight	P				¼		½		F
Heavyweight	P				¼		½		F
Super heavyweight	P				¼		½		F

Source: ^[3]

Participation

Participating nations

•   Antigua and Barbuda  (2)
•   Australia  (12)
•   Bahamas  (5)
•   Barbados  (2)
•   Belize  (1)
•   Botswana  (5)
•   Cameroon  (2)
•   Canada  (10)
•   Cyprus  (5)
•   England  (12)
•   Fiji  (2)
•   Ghana  (8)
•   Grenada  (2)
•   Guyana  (2)
•   India  (7)
•   Jamaica  (4)
•   Kenya  (4)
•   Lesotho  (8)
•   Malawi  (4)
•   Malaysia  (5)
•   Mauritius  (5)
•   Mozambique  (2)
•   Namibia  (5)
•   New Zealand  (4)
•   Nigeria  (12)
•   Niue  (1)
•   Northern Ireland  (10)
•   Pakistan  (3)
•   Papua New Guinea  (4)
•   Samoa  (4)
•   Scotland  (8)
•   Seychelles  (2)
•   Sierra Leone  (5)
•   Solomon Islands  (1)
•   South Africa  (6)
•   Sri Lanka  (4)
•   Swaziland  (4)
•   Tanzania  (6)
•   Trinidad and Tobago  (7)
•   Uganda  (4)
•   Wales  (11)
•   Zambia  (5)
•   Zimbabwe  (2)

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight details	Mohamed Ali Qamar   India	Darran Langley   England	Taoreed Ajabe   Nigeria
			Zamzai Azizi Mohamed   Malaysia
Flyweight details	Kennedy Kanyanta   Zambia	Lechedzani Luza   Botswana	Sébastien Gauthier   Canada
			Nzimeni Msutu   South Africa
Bantamweight details	Justin Kane   Australia	Andrew Kooner   Canada	Ezekiel Letuka   Lesotho
			Mark Moran   England
Featherweight details	Haider Ali   Pakistan	Som Bahadur Pun   India	Benoit Gaudet   Canada
			Joshua Veikko   Namibia
Lightweight details	Jamie Arthur   Wales	Dennis Zimba   Zambia	Gilbert Khunwane   Botswana
			Andrew Morris   England
Light Welterweight details	Darren Barker   England	Mohammed Kayongo   Uganda	Davidson Emenogu   Nigeria
			Davis Mwale   Zambia
Welterweight details	Daniel Geale   Australia	Kwanele Zulu   South Africa	Daniel Codling   New Zealand
			Ali Nuumbembe   Namibia
Light Middleweight details	Jean Pascal   Canada	Paul Smith   England	Junior Greenidge   Barbados
			Craig McEwan   Scotland
Middleweight details	Paul Miller   Australia	Steven Birch   England	Jitender Kumar   India
			Michael Walchuk   Canada
Light heavyweight details	Jegbefumere Albert   Nigeria	Joseph Lubega   Uganda	Ben McEachran   Australia
			Daniel Venter   South Africa
Heavyweight details	Jason Douglas   Canada	Kertson Manswell   Trinidad and Tobago	Shane Cameron   New Zealand
			Andrew Young   Scotland
Super Heavyweight details	David Dolan   England	David Cadieux   Canada	Gozie Dijeh   Zambia
			Kevin Evans   Wales

Medal table

  *   Host nation (England)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	3	0	1	4
2	England*	2	3	2	7
3	Canada	2	2	3	7
4	Zambia	1	1	2	4
5	India	1	1	1	3
6	Nigeria	1	0	2	3
7	Wales	1	0	1	2
8	Pakistan	1	0	0	1
9	Uganda	0	2	0	2
10	South Africa	0	1	2	3
11	Botswana	0	1	1	2
12	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	0	1
13	Namibia	0	0	2	2
	New Zealand	0	0	2	2
	Scotland	0	0	2	2
16	Barbados	0	0	1	1
	Lesotho	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		12	12	24	48

See also

• Boxing at the 1930 British Empire Games
• Boxing at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Boxing at the Commonwealth Games

References

1. "Manchester 2002: Forum Centre". Manchester 2002 . Retrieved 9 January 2020.
2. "Manchester 2002: Manchester Evening News Arena". Manchester 2002 . Retrieved 9 January 2020.
3. "2002 Commonwealth Games: Boxing Schedule". Manchester 2002 . Retrieved 9 January 2020.