2nd AIBA European 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

2008

Tournament details
Host nation	Greece
Dates	7 – 12 April
Teams	21
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Official website
tournament website

2nd AIBA European Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament was held from 7 – 12 April 2008 in Athens, Greece. 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:

•  Armenia (5)
•  Austria (3)
•  Azerbaijan (9)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
•  Belarus (8)
•  Bulgaria (8)
•  Croatia (6)
•  Cyprus (5)
•  Czech Republic (6)
•  Spain (2)
•  Estonia (2)
•  Finland (5)
•  France (6)
•  Great Britain (5) (ENG - 4) (SCO - 1)
•  Georgia (6)
•  Germany (7)
•  Greece (8)
•  Hungary (7)
•  Ireland (9)
•  Iceland (1)
•  Israel (4)
•  Italy (7)
•  Latvia (6)
•  Lithuania (7)
•  Moldova (7)
•  Macedonia (1)
•  Montenegro (3)
•  Netherlands (3)
•  Norway (1)
•  Poland (8)
•  Romania (8)
•  Russia (1)
•  Serbia (4)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  Sweden (6)
•  Turkey (8)
•  Ukraine (2)

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 Mumin Veli
Flyweight	Memis Fulas	Jérôme Thomas	Derenik Chizlaryan Bato-Munko Vankeyeu
Bantamweight	Ali Hallab	Khavazhy Khatsyhau	Vittorio Parrinello Rudolf Dydi
Featherweight	Alessio di Savino	Nikoloz Izoria	Stephen Smith Bashir Hassan
Lightweight	Daouda Sow	Georgian Popescu	Kobar Pkhakadze Krzysztof Szot
Light Welterweight	John Joe Joyce	Egidijus Kavaliauskas	Harun Sipahi Boris Katalinic
Welterweight	Jaoid Chiguer	Kakhaber Zhvania	Andrey Balanov Samuel Matevosyan
Middleweight	Darren Sutherland	Jean-Michel Raymond	Georgios Gazis Victor Cotiujanschii
Light Heavyweight	Kenneth Egan	Kennedy Katende	Gottlieb Weiss Anastasios Berdesis
Heavyweight	Milorad Gajovic	Ilias Pavlidis	Elchin Alizada Petrisor Gananau
Super Heavyweight	Jaroslav Jaksto	Daniel Price	Cristian Ciocan Yosef Abed Elghani

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 entries)		11	11	22	44

Key to AIBA decisions

KO	DSQ	BDSQ	JURY	RSC	RSCH	RSCI	RSCOS	NC	WO	RET	R
Knockout	Disqualified	Both disqualified	Result determined by jury votes	Referee stop contest	Referee stop contest by head blow	Referee stop contest by injured	Referee stop contest outscored	No contest	Walkover	Retired	Round

See also

• 1st AIBA European 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

External links

• Medal and points ranking