1st AIBA European 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

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.

2008

Tournament details
Host nation	Italy
Dates	February 25 – March 1
Teams	21
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Official website
tournament website
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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 details	David Ayrapetyan	Łukasz Maszczyk	Ferhat Pehlivan   Anton Bekish
Flyweight details	Norbert Kalucza	Khalid Saeed Yafai	Marcel Schneider   Igor Samoilenco
Bantamweight details	John Joe Nevin	Vyacheslav Goyan	Rustamhodza Rahimov
Featherweight details	Khedafi Djelkhir	Shahin Imranov	Wilhelm Gratschow
Lightweight details	Olexandr Klyuchko	Miklos Varga	Ramal Amanov   Georgian Popescu
Light Welterweight details	Gyula Káté	Ionut Gheorghe	John Joe Joyce   Egidijus Kavaliauskas
Welterweight details	Magomed Nurutdinov	Olexandr Stretskiy	Billy Joe Saunders
Middleweight details	Naim Terbunja	James Degale	Andranik Hakobyan
Light Heavyweight details	Ismail Syllakh	Ramazan Magomedov	Kenneth Egan   Bahram Muzaffer
Heavyweight details	Viktor Zuyev	Oleksandr Usyk	Artur Szpilka   Daniel Price
Super Heavyweight details	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	1	0	3
4	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	2	3
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Russia (RUS)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	2	4
10	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	1	1	2
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	1	2
	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
	Romania (ROM)	0	1	1	2
14	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	0	1
15	Germany (GER)	0	0	3	3
16	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	2	2
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	2	2
18	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		11	11	18	40

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

References

• Medal and points ranking

See also

• 1st AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament