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Pic: The victorious Kenya team with AIBA Technical Delegate Professor Aghajan Abiyev and AIBA African Confederation President Dr. Abdellah Bessalem (far right)
  
Prince Octopus Dzanie's 13:3 win over Ashley Dlamini in their 57kg bronze medal box-off and an incredible come-from-behind victory by Durodola Olanrewaju of Nigeria in the 91kg final on the final day of the Olympic qualifier in Windhoek, Namibia saw Ghana and Nigeria join Kenya as top qualifiers at the 2nd AIBA Africa Olympic Qualification Tournament on Saturday.

Each nation qualified four boxers in Windhoek (a total of 15 countries are represented in the final tally of 29 Olympic qualified boxers) while Kenya - named team of the tournament - and Ghana had qualified one and two boxers respectively at the 1st Africa Olympic Qualification Tournament in Algiers, Algeria.

After Friday's semifinals where 20 boxers (including four from Kenya), boxed their way to Beijing, nine vacancies remained unfilled with 48kg to 69kg and 81kg bronze medal bouts and the 91kg final offering the last Olympic tickets for African boxers.

Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, Namibia, Cameroon, Morocco and Nigeria all shared the bronze medal qualifying spots amongst the eight weight categories while Olanrewaju came from 4-0 down to tie his 91kg final bout against Abgonso Yao from Togo at 5-5. The bout, and the final Olympic qualifying spot of the evening, was awarded to Olanrewaju on accepted points 12:11 much to the delight of the jubilant Nigerian fans.

The 2nd AIBA Africa Olympic Qualification Tournament completes the qualifying process for Africa with Morocco topping the African qualifying table with 10 qualified boxers followed by Algeria, and Ghana with eight and six respectively.

2nd AIBA Africa Olympic Qualification Tournament - Windhoek, Namibia Boxers Qualified by Weight
Weight in kg	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight  Up to 48kg	Essomba Thomas (CMR)	Bouchtouk Redouane (MAR)	Ronald Sergo (UGA)
Flyweight Over 48 to 51kg	Cassius Chiyanikab (ZAM)	Bernard Ngumba (KEN)	Jackson Chauke (RSA)
Bantamweight Over 51 to 54kg	Issah Samir (GHA)	Louis R. Bruno Julie (MRI)	Emiliani P. Polino (TAN)
Featherweight Over 54 to 57kg	Nicholas Okongo Okoth (KEN)	Ghato Batshegi (BOT)	Prince Octopus Dzanie (GHA)
Lightweight Over 57 to 60kg	Jean de Dieu Solonianina (MAD)	Rasheed Lawal (NGR)	Juluis M. Indongo (NAM)
Light Welterweight Over 60 to 64kg	Louis Richardo Colin (MRI)	Samuel Kotey (GHA)	Smaila Mahaman (CMR)

Welterweight Over 64 to 69kg	Mejandjae Kasuto (NAM)	Nickson Abaka (KEN)	Khalisi Mandy (MAR)
Middleweight Over 69 to 75kg	Badou Jack (GAM)	Herry Saliku Biembe (RDC)
Light Heavyweight Over 75 to 81kg	Bastie Samir (GHA)	Aziz Ali (KEN)	Izobo Dauda (NGR)
Heavyweight Over 81 to 91kg	Durodola Olanrewaju (NGR)
Super Heavyweight +91kg	Mohamed Amanissi (MAR)	Ehwarieme Onorioge (NGR)

2nd AIBA Africa Olympic Qualification Tournament - Windhoek, Namibia Boxers Qualified by Country
Country	Qualified Boxers	Total
Kenya	Bernard Ngumba (51kg Silver) Nicholas Okongo Okoth (57kg Gold) Nickson Abaka (69kg Silver) Aziz Ali (81kg Silver)	4
Ghana	Issah Samir (54kg Gold) Samuel Kotey (64kg Silver) Bastie Samir (81kg Gold) Prince Octopus Dzanie (57kg Bronze)	4
Nigeria	Rasheed Lawal (60kg Silver) Ehwarieme Onorioge (+91kg) Izobo Dauda (81kg Bronze) Durodola Olanrewaju (91kg Gold)	4
Morocco	Bouchtouk Redouane (48kg Silver) Mohamed Amanissi (+91kg) Khalisi Mandy (69kg Bronze)	3
Cameroon	Essomba Thomas (48kg Gold) Smaila Mahaman (64kg Bronze)	2
Mauritius	Louis R. Bruno Julie (54kg Silver) Louis Richardo Colin (64kg Gold)	2
Namibia	Mejandjae Kasuto (69kg Gold) Juluis M. Indongo (60kg Bronze)	2
Botswana	Ghato Batshegi (57kg Silver)	1
RD Congo	Herry Saliku Biembe (75kg Silver)	1
Gambia	Badou Jack (75kg Gold)	1
Madagascar	Jean de Dieu Solonianina (60kg Gold)	1
Zambia	Cassius Chiyanikab (51kg Gold)	1
South Africa	Jackson Chauke (51kg Bronze)	1
Tanzania	Emiliani P. Polino (54kg Bronze)	1
Uganda	Ronald Sergo (48kg Bronze)	1
Total: 15		29

Qualification Summary for the African Continent
CONTINENT/  COUNTRY	NUMBER OF QUALIFIED BOXERS	AIBA World Championships Chicago 2007	1st AIBA Africa Qualifying Tournament	2nd AIBA Africa Qualifying Tournament
AFRICA
Morocco	10	1 Chicago	6 Algiers	3 Windhoek
Algeria	8		8 Algiers
Ghana	6		2 Algiers	4 Windhoek
Kenya	5		1 Algiers	4 Windhoek
Tunisia	5		5 Algiers
Nigeria	4			4 Windhoek
Cameroon	3		1 Algiers	2 Windhoek
Egypt	3	1 Chicago	2 Algiers
Namibia	3		1 Algiers	2 Windhoek
Botswana	2		1 Algiers	1 Windhoek
Zambia	2		1 Algiers	1 Windhoek
Mauritius	2			2 Windhoek
RD Congo	1			1 Windhoek
Ethiopia	1		1 Algiers
Gambia	1			1 Windhoek
Madagascar	1			1 Windhoek
South Africa	1			1 Windhoek
Tanzania	1			1 Windhoek
Uganda	1			1 Windhoek
Total: 19	60	2	29	29