Heavy and Super Heavy weight boxers on their way to London

05.10.2011

BOUT 484 Arjaoui Mohammed MAR
vs Joshua Anthony ENG (blue-winner)


After 64 boxers qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games yesterday, four Heavy and four Super Heavy weights have joined them after the AIBA World Boxing Championships quarter-final stages.
 
The final 20 boxers to qualify will be announced on Friday 7 October 2011 after the competition's semi-finals. Two athletes from each weight category, who were eliminated by the finalists in the round of 16 (for the first eight weight categories) and in the quarter-finals (for the Heavy and Super Heavy weight categories), will also book their tickets to the London Olympic Games.
 
Heavy (91kg)
- Oleksandr USYK from Ukraine
- Siarhei KARNEYEU from Belarus
- Teymur MAMMADOV from Azerbaijan
- Xuanxuan WANG from China
 
Super Heavy (+91kg)
- Anthony JOSHUA from England
- Erik PFEIFER from Germany
- Ivan DYCHKO from Kazakhstan
- Magomedrasul MEDZHIDOV from Azerbaijan
 
Please find below the updated list of qualifications by country:
- Ukraine: 6
- Kazakhstan, Russia: 5
- Azerbaijan, Cuba, England, India, Uzbekistan: 4
- China, Ireland, Italy, USA: 3
- Brazil, Hungary, Korea Republic, Mongolia, Wales: 2
- Armenia, Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Germany, Iran, Japan, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Tajikistan, Thailand: 1 



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