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Author Time: 02-02-2008 Source: BOCOG
(BEIJIING, February 2) -- With only one Olympic vacancy left to allocate on the final day of the 1st AIBA African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Algiers, Algeria, local hero Newfel Ouatah charged to a 21-6 victory over Mohamed Amanissi (MAR) in the +91kg division on Thursday.
Ouatah's victory brought the number of Algerian Olympic qualifiers to eight and the number of gold medals to four, much to the delight of the strong home country support.
A total of 29 boxers booked an Olympic ticket from this opening African qualifying event, which has proved to be an excellent opening leg to the 2nd AIBA African Olympic Qualifying Tournament, which will be held in Windhoek, Namibia from March 22-31.
Finals results:
48kg Jafet Uutoni (NAM) beat Sulemane Bilali (KEN) RET R4
51kg Walid Cherif (TUN) beat Abdelillah Nhaila (MAR) PTS 19:1
54kg Abdelhalim Ourradi (ALG) beat Mesbahi Hicham (MAR) PTS 6:0
57kg Mahdi Ouatine (MAR) beat Abdelkader Chadi (ALG) WO
60kg Saifeddine Nejmaoui (TUN) beat Hamza Kramou (ALG) PTS 11:4
64kg Driss Moussaid (MAR) beat Hamza Hassini (TUN) PTS 17:8
69kg Hussein Bakr Abdin Hosam (EGY) beat Joseph Mulema (CMR)
75kg M. Ab. Mawgo A. El Hikal (EGY) beat Hamed Saraku (GHA) PTS 11:4
81kg Abdelhafid Benchabla (ALG) beat Mourad Sahraoui (TUN) WO
91kg Abdelaziz Touilbini (ALG) beat Mohamed Arjaoui (MAR) PTS 18:2
+91kg Newfel Ouatah (ALG) beat Mohamed Amanissi (MAR) PTS 21:6
African Olympic Qualifiers:
Total Boxers: 29
Total Countries: 11
Algeria: 8 boxers
Morocco: 6
Tunisia: 5
Egypt: 2
Ghana: 2
Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Zambia: 1
Meanwhile, the 1st AIBA Asia Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand will contest the semifinals on Friday where 18 Olympic vacancies are on the line.
Credit AIBA.
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