1st AIBA European 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

2008

Official website

tournament website

Tournament details

Host nation

Italy

Dates

February 25 – March 1

Teams

Venues

1 (in 1 host city)

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1st AIBA European Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament was held from February 25 – March 1, 2008 in Roseto degli Abruzzi-Pescara, Italy. During the tournament 250 boxers from 40 countries competed for 26 Olympic qualifying places in 11 different weight categories.

Qualifying

40 teams participated in this tournament:

Albania (9)
Armenia (7)
Austria (3)
Azerbaijan (10)
Belgium (1)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
Belarus (11)
Bulgaria (10)
Croatia (5)
Cyprus (3)
Czech Republic (6)
Spain (11)
Estonia (1)
Finland (5)
France (8)
Great Britain (0) (ENG - 7), (SCO - 4), (WAL - 2)
Georgia (8)
Germany (8)
Greece (8)
Hungary (10)

Ireland (10)
Israel (5)
Italy (7)
Latvia (9)
Lithuania (9)
Moldova (7)
Macedonia (3)
Montenegro (3)
Netherlands (2)
Norway (1)
Poland (9)
Romania (9)
Russia (2)
Serbia (7)
Slovakia (4)
Slovenia (6)
Sweden (3)
Turkey (8)
Ukraine (7)

Number in ( ) is total boxer in each country

Competition System

The competition system of the 1st AIBA European Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament is the knockout round system. Each boxer fights one match per round.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight	David Ayrapetyan	Łukasz Maszczyk	Ferhat Pehlivan Anton Bekish
Flyweight	Norbert Kalucza	Khalid Saeed Yafai	Marcel Schneider Igor Samoilenco
Bantamweight	John Joe Nevin	Vyacheslav Goyan	Rustamhodza Rahimov
Featherweight	Khedafi Djelkhir	Shahin Imranov	Wilhelm Gratschow
Lightweight	Olexandr Klyuchko	Miklos Varga	Ramal Amanov Georgian Popescu
Light Welterweight	Gyula Káté	Ionut Gheorghe	John Joe Joyce Egidijus Kavaliauskas
Welterweight	Magomed Nurutdinov	Olexandr Stretskiy	Billy Joe Saunders
Middleweight	Naim Terbunja	James Degale	Andranik Hakobyan
Light Heavyweight	Ismail Syllakh	Ramazan Magomedov	Kenneth Egan Bahram Muzaffer
Heavyweight	Viktor Zuyev	Oleksandr Usyk	Artur Szpilka Daniel Price
Super Heavyweight	Kubrat Pulev	Marko Tomasović	Jaroslav Jaksto Robert Helenius

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ukraine (UKR)	2	2	0	4
2	Belarus (BLR)	2	1	1	4
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	0	2
4	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	2	3
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	0	1
	Russia (RUS)	1	0	0	1
9	Great Britain (GBR) ENG	0	2	2	4
10	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	1	1	2
	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	1	2
	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
14	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	0	1
15	Germany (GER)	0	0	3	3
16	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	2	2
16	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	2	2
16	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
16	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1

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