BY SEGUN OLANREWAJU
The Africa Olympic Games boxing qualifiers enter the crucial phase today Wednesday September 13, with the quarter-finals expected to be fiercely contested as boxers vie for only 18 slots allocated to Africa by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
A total of 104 boxers from 26 countries will battle it out in the quarters.
African Olympic Boxing Qualifier
– Statistics after the preliminaries
- Number of participating countries: 41
- Number of participating boxers: 235
- Number of weight classes: 13
The biggest delegations in the African Qualifier
Morocco and Senegal with maximum number of 13 boxers
- The smallest delegations in the African Qualifier: Benin, Burundi, Congo, Liberia, Sudan each with 1 boxer
- Number of competition days completed: 3
- Total number of competition days: 6
- Number of bouts in the preliminaries: 131
- Number of quarter-finalist boxers: 104
- Number of quarter-finalist nations: 26
The list of the participating countries at the African Olympic Qualifier
Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia
Total number of quarter-finalists per nations
- Algeria: 11 boxers
- Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia: 8 boxers
- DR Congo, Mozambique: 7 boxers
- Egypt, Kenya, Senegal: 6 boxers
- Cameroon, Cape Verde, Ghana: 4 boxers
- South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia: 3 boxers
- Ethiopia, Lesotho, Namibia: 2 boxers
- Botswana, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo: 1 boxer
Women’s quarter-finalists
- Nigeria: 6 women boxers
- Algeria, DR Congo, Tunisia: 5 women boxers
- Mozambique: 4 women boxers
- Kenya, Morocco: 3 women boxers
- Cameroon, Cape Verde, Egypt, Senegal, Zambia: 2 women boxers
- Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania: 1 woman boxer
Men’s quarter-finalists:
- Algeria: 6 men boxers
- Morocco: 5 men boxers
- Egypt, Senegal: 4 men boxers
- Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tunisia, Uganda: 3 men boxers
- Cameroon, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Lesotho, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania: 2 men boxers
- Ethiopia, Gabon, Mauritius, Seychelles, Togo, Zambia: 1 man boxer Number of quotas per weight classes:
- Women’s 50kg: 2
- Women’s 54kg: 2
- Women’s 57kg: 2
- Women’s 60kg: 2
- Women’s 66kg: 2
- Women’s 75kg: 1
- Men’s 51kg: 1
- Men’s 57kg: 1
- Men’s 63.5kg: 1
- Men’s 71kg: 1
- Men’s 80kg: 1
- Men’s 92kg: 1
- Men’s +92kg: 1
