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Australia, Papua New Guinea and Samoa split the 11 Olympic qualification vacancies on offer at the Oceania Olympic Qualification tournament which drew to a close on Friday in Apia, Samoa with Australia topping the list with nine qualifiers.

Samoa and Papua New Guinea each qualified one boxer apiece.

The Apia tournament, which doubled as the 2008 Oceania Continental Championships, was the only qualifier for the Oceania region and represents the ninth out of 10 for the entire AIBA Olympic boxing qualifying process.

Highlights on the final day saw Papua New Guinea's Jack Willie became a three-time Oceania champion with his 15:9 victory over Kyle Freiberg (AUS) in the 48kg division while Australia's Luke Boyd repeated his 2007 success with victory over Eugene Keto (PNG) in the 54kg class.

In a repeat of the 75kg 2007 Oceania Continental Championship final Australia's Jarrod Fletcher was again too good for Nathan McEwan of New Zealand winning 17:3 while Australia's Bradley Pitt retained his 91kg Oceania title by beating compatriot Adam Forsyth - a 2004 Olympian -15:11.

The total of Olympic qualified boxers now numbers 261. Twenty-three more will be confirmed at the final Olympic qualification tournament which is the 2nd AIBA Americas Olympic Qualifier in Guatemala City, Guatemala which started on Friday. Two final vacancies will be allocated by the tripartite commission, bringing the total number of Olympic qualified boxers to 286.