Boxing at the 8th All Africa Games was held in Abuja, Nigeria from October 4-13, 2003. It served as a qualification tournament for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The number one and two earned a ticket for the Olympic tournament.
A total number of 182 fighters from 27 countries did participate in Abuja, Nigeria, with the host country (four gold, three silver, no bronze) as the overall-winner before Egypt (three gold, two silver, two bronze) and Algeria (two gold, one silver, four bronze). All the finalists got quotes for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Two more qualification tournaments followed afterwards on the African continent: in Casablanca, Morocco (January 15 to January 22, 2004) and in Gaborone, Botswana (March 15 to March 22, 2004).
Medal winners
EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE Light Flyweight(– 48 kilograms) Suleiman BilaliKenya Endalkachew KebedeEthiopia Joseph JermiaNamibia Jolly KatongoleUganda Flyweight(– 51 kilograms) Walid CherifTunisia Paulus AmbundaNamibia Mebarek SoltaniAlgeria Adebellahim MohamedEgypt Bantamweight(– 54 kilograms) Malik BouzianeAlgeria Nestor BolumNigeria Lankwe WilsonGhana David MunyasiaKenya Featherweight(– 57 kilograms) Hadj BelkheirAlgeria Muideen GaniyuNigeria Ayman MohamedEgypt Daniel TadeleEthiopia Lightweight(– 60 kilograms) Ahmed SadiqNigeria Bongani MahlanguSouth Africa Perel RivanCameroon Esayas GetanehEthiopia Light Welterweight(– 64 kilograms) Davidson EmenoguNigeria Nasserredine FillaliAlgeria Davis MwaleZambia Sadat TebazaalwaUganda Welterweight(– 69 kilograms) Mohamed HikalEgypt Zakaria NefziTunisia Benamar MeskineAlgeria Ellis ChibuyeZambia Middleweight(– 75 kilograms) Ramadan YasserEgypt Hassan N'Dam N'JikamCameroon Daniel ShisiaKenya Nabil KasselAlgeria Light Heavyweight(– 81 kilograms) Ahmed IsmailEgypt Isaac EkpoNigeria Abdelhani KenziAlgeria Sibiri KaboreBurundi Heavyweight(– 91 kilograms) Emmanuel IzonriteiNigeria Mohamed El-SayedEgypt Apostolos EleftheriouSouth Africa Parfait AmougouCameroon Super Heavyweight(+ 91 kilograms) Gbenga OloukunNigeria Mohamed AlyEgypt Carlos TakamCameroon Gregorio ManuelAngola
See also 2003 African Amateur Boxing Championships Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
External links Results Amateur Boxing