2nd AIBA European 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

2nd AIBA European Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament was held from 7 – 12 April 2008 in Athens, Greece.^[1] During the tournament 193 boxers from 39 countries competed for 23 Olympic qualifying places in 11 different weight categories.

Qualifying[]

40 teams participated in this tournament:

Number in ( ) is total boxer in each country

Competition System[]

The competition system of the 2nd AIBA European Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament is the knockout round system. Each boxer fights one match per round.

The first two places in each weight provided direct qualification to the 2008 Olympics with and additional qualification place for 3rd place provided in the 54 kg, 69 kg and 75 kg classes after a box off between the two losing semi finalists.

Vittorio Parrinello (ITA, 54 kg), Andrey Balanov (RUS, 69 kg), and Georgios Gazis (GRE, 75 kg) booked the last available tickets to the Beijing Olympics, by winning their bronze contests in the last day of the 2nd AIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Medal summary[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight	Pál Bedák	Jose Kelvin de la Nieve Linares	Ferhat Pehlivan
Flyweight	Memis Fulas	Jérôme Thomas
Bantamweight	Ali Hallab	Khavazhy Khatsyhau	Vittorio Parrinello
Featherweight	Alessio di Savino	Nikoloz Izoria	Stephen Smith
Lightweight	Daouda Sow	Georgian Popescu
Light Welterweight	John Joe Joyce	Egidijus Kavaliauskas
Welterweight	Jaoid Chiguer	Kakhaber Zhvania	Andrey Balanov
Middleweight	Darren Sutherland		Georgios Gazis
Light Heavyweight	Kenneth Egan	Kennedy Katende
Heavyweight	Milorad Gajovic	Ilias Pavlidis
Super Heavyweight	Jaroslav Jaksto	Daniel Price	Cristian Ciocan

Medal table[]

Based on AIBA weightings which takes into consideration the number of bouts fought and number of competitors per team.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	3	2	0	5
2	Ireland (IRL)	3	0	0	3
3	Lithuania (LTU)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
	Montenegro (MNE)	1	0	1	2
	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
7	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
8	Georgia (GEO)	0	2	1	3
9	Greece (GRE)	0	1	2	3
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
11	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
13	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
15	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	2	2
	Germany (GER)	0	0	2	2
17	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	1	1
	Macedonia (MKD)	0	0	1	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 nations)		11	11	22	44

Key to AIBA decisions[]

See also[]

• 1st AIBA European 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

References[]

External links[]

• Medal and points ranking