# 2nd AIBA European 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

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 details | Pál Bedák | Jose Kelvin de la Nieve Linares | Ferhat Pehlivan Mumin Veli |
| Flyweight details | Memis Fulas | Jérôme Thomas | Derenik Chizlaryan Bato-Munko Vankeyeu |
| Bantamweight details | Ali Hallab | Khavazhy Khatsyhau | Vittorio Parrinello Rudolf Dydi |
| Featherweight details | Alessio di Savino | Nikoloz Izoria | Stephen Smith Bashir Hassan |
| Lightweight details | Daouda Sow | Georgian Popescu | Kobar Pkhakadze Krzysztof Szot |
| Light Welterweight details | John Joe Joyce | Egidijus Kavaliauskas | Harun Sipahi Boris Katalinic |
| Welterweight details | Jaoid Chiguer | Kakhaber Zhvania | Andrey Balanov Samuel Matevosyan |
| Middleweight details | Darren Sutherland | Jean-Michel Raymond | Georgios Gazis Victor Cotiujanschii |
| Light Heavyweight details | Kenneth Egan | Kennedy Katende | Gottlieb Weiss Anastasios Berdesis |
| Heavyweight details | Milorad Gajovic | Ilias Pavlidis | Elchin Alizada Petrisor Gananau |
| Super Heavyweight details | 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 |
| 4 | Montenegro (MNE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 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 |
| 9 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Belarus (BLR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Armenia (ARM) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 15 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Iceland (ISL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Macedonia (MKD) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Moldova (MDA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (24 entries) | Totals (24 entries) | 11 | 11 | 22 | 44 |