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RIF:
07
AIBA
Press Release
Olympic Qualified Boxers number 128
Photo
Caption: Manus Boomjumnong celebrates at the 1st AIBA Asian
Olympic Qualification Tournament in
Bangkok
,
Thailand
becoming
Thailand
's eighth Olympic qualified boxer
February
4, 2008 – The total of boxers who have booked their tickets to the
2008 Olympic Games in
Beijing
,
China
has now reached 128 following the completion of two AIBA Olympic
qualifying tournaments last weekend.
Bangkok
in
Thailand
was the host of the 1st AIBA Asian Olympic Qualifying
Tournament, which finished on Saturday with 19 boxers from nine
different countries qualifying while 29 boxers from 11 different
countries booked their Olympic tickets at the 1st AIBA
African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in
Algiers
,
Algeria
.
Eighty
boxers from 36 countries had previously qualified at the first
qualification tournament – the AIBA World Championships Chicago 2007.
Following the completion of the final Olympic qualification tournament
in April, a total of 284 boxers with have booked a spot for
Beijing
.
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Olympic
Qualified Boxers from
Asia
|
|
Country
|
Number
of boxers qualified at 1st AIBA Asian Qualification Tournament
|
Number
of boxers qualified in Chicago
|
Total
number of boxers qualified for Olympic Games
|
|
Uzbekistan
:
|
4
|
1
|
5
|
|
China
|
3
|
7
|
10
|
|
Korea
|
3
|
|
3
|
|
Thailand
|
3
|
5
|
8
|
|
Tajikistan
|
2
|
|
2
|
|
Kazakhstan
|
1
|
4
|
5
|
|
India
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
|
Japan
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
|
Iran
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
|
Mongolia
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
Philippines
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
Democratic
People's Republic of
Korea
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
Sri
Lanka
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
Countries:
13
|
Total:
19
|
Total:
24
|
Total:
43
|
|
Olympic
Qualified Boxers from
Africa
|
|
Country
|
Number
of boxers qualified at 1st AIBA African Qualification Tournament
|
Number
of boxers qualified in Chicago
|
Total
number of boxers qualified for Olympic Games
|
|
Algeria
|
8
|
|
8
|
|
Morocco
|
6
|
1
|
7
|
|
Tunisia
|
5
|
|
5
|
|
Egypt
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
|
Ghana
|
2
|
|
2
|
|
Botswana
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
Cameroon
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
Ethiopia
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
Kenya
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
Namibia
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
Zambia
|
1
|
|
1
|
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Countries:
11
|
Total:
29
|
Total:
2
|
Total:
31
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Nineteen
and 29 vacancies will be on offer again at the second AIBA Asian (Astana,
Kazakhstan from March 15-25) and AIBA African Olympic Qualification
Tournaments (Windhoek, Namibia from March 22-31) respectively.
Next
AIBA Olympic Qualification Tournament:
February
24-March 2, 2008: 1st AIBA European Olympic Qualification Tournament –
Pescara
,
Italy
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