103 boxers (109 including the host places) have qualified for Rio 2016 so far.
Please scroll down for list of boxers qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics following the completion of the Americas and African AIBA Open Boxing (AOB) qualifiers in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Yaoundé, Cameroon over the weekend.
Thirty three athletes qualified in the Cameroon and thirty in Buenos Aires. The Americas qualifiers had a slightly lower yield as Brazil has taken its six host – five for men, one for women – places in the 49kg,52kg,56kg,64kg, 81kg and female 60kg weights.
Prior to the Americas and African qualifiers, sixty boxers, including Ireland’s Joe Ward, Steven Donnelly, Michael Conlan and Paddy Barnes, qualified for the 31st Olympiad through AOB, the World Series of Boxing (WSB) and AIBA Pro Boxing (APB). Click here for list of 60 boxers.
Meanwhile, the Asian/Oceania AOB qualifiers begin on March 25 in China. These will be followed by the European qualifiers which begin in Samsun, Turkey on April 9th. Ireland will send a nine-strong squad to Samsun.
Following the completion of the Asian/Oceania and European qualifiers, three routes to Rio 2016 will remain via the World Women’s AOB Championships in Kazakhstan in May, the final (for men) AOB World qualifier in Baku, Azerbaijan in June and a WSB versus APB tournament in late June or early July at a host city to be confirmed. Click here for calendar.
The Rio 2016 Olympics begin on August 5th. 286 boxers will compete at the Games.
Qualified athletes at the AIBA American Olympic Qualification Event in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 11/19
Women’s 51 kg: Mandy Bujold, Canada
Women’s 51 kg: Ingrit Valencia, Colombia
Women’s 60 kg: Mikaela Mayer, United States
Women’s 75 kg: Claressa Shields, Unites States
Women’s 75 kg: Ariane Fortin, Canada
Men’s 49 kg: Yuberjen Martinez, Colombia
Men’s 49 kg: Nico Hernandez, United States
Men’s 52 kg: Fernando Martinez, Argentina
Men’s 52 kg: Leonel De Los Santos, Dominican Republic
Men’s 56 kg: Shakur Stevenson, United States
Men’s 56 kg: Alberto Melian, Argentina
Men’s 60 kg: Teofimo Lopez, Honduras
Men’s 60 kg: Luis Angel Cabrera, Venezuela
Men’s 60 kg: Ignacio Perrin, Argentina
Men’s 64 kg: Arthur Biyarslanov, Canada
Men’s 64 kg: Luis Arcon, Venezuela
Men’s 69 kg: Roniel Iglesias, Cuba
Men’s 69 kg: Gabriel Maestre, Venezuela
Men’s 69 kg: Alberto Palmetta, Argentina
Men’s 75 kg: Charles Conwell, United States
Men’s 75 kg: Misael Rodriguez, Mexico
Men’s 75 kg: Jorge Luis Vivas, Colombia
Men’s 81 kg: Carlos Andres Mina, Ecuador
Men’s 81 kg: Albert Ramirez, Venezuela
Men’s 91 kg: Erislandy Savon, Cuba
Men’s 91 kg: Yamil Alberto Peralta, Argentina
Men’s 91 kg: Juan Nogueira, Brazil
Men’s +91 kg: Leinier Pero, Cuba
Men’s +91 kg: Nigel Paul, Trinidad & Tobago
Men’s +91 kg: Clayton Laurent, Virgin Islands
List of all qualified athletes at the Africa qualifying event in Yaounde, Cameroon March 11/19
Women’s 51 kg: Zohra Ez-Zahraoui, Morocco
Women’s 60 kg: Hasnaa Lachgar, Morocco
Women’s 75 kg: Khadija Mardi, Morocco
Men’s 49 kg: Simplice Fotsala, Cameroon
Men’s 49 kg: Mathias Hamunyela, Namibia
Men’s 49 kg: Sibusiso Bandla, South Africa
Men’s 52 kg: Sikho Nqothole, South Africa
Men’s 52 kg: Mohamed Flissi, Algeria
Men’s 52 kg: Ronald Serugo, Uganda
Men’s 56 kg: Bilel M’Hamdi, Tunisia
Men’s 56 kg: Suntele Inkululeko, Lesotho
Men’s 56 kg: Mohamed Hamout, Morocco
Men’s 60 kg: Reda Benbaziz, Algeria
Men’s 60 kg: Mahmoud Abdelaal, Egypt
Men’s 60 kg: Andrique Allisop, Seychelles
Men’s 64 kg: Jonas Junias Jonas, Namibia
Men’s 64 kg: Hamza El-Barbari, Morocco
Men’s 64 kg: Babou Mahaman Smaila, Cameroon
Men’s 69 kg: Rayton Nduku Okwiri, Kenya
Men’s 69 kg: Walid Sedik Mohamed, Egypt
Men’s 69 kg: Zohir Kedache, Algeria
Men’s 75 kg: Dieudonne Wilfried Seyi Ntsengue, Cameroon
Men’s 75 kg: Merven Clair, Mauritius
Men’s 75 kg: Said Harnouf, Morocco
Men’s 81 kg: Abdelhafid Benchabla, Algeria
Men’s 81 kg: Abdelrahman Salah Orabi, Egypt
Men’s 81 kg: Kennedy Katende, Uganda
Men’s 91 kg: Joseph Kennedy St. Pierre, Mauritius
Men’s 91 kg: Chouaib Bouloudinats, Algeria
Men’s 91 kg: Hassen Chagtemi, Tunisia
Men’s +91 kg: Efe Ajagba, Nigeria
Men’s +91 kg: Mohammed Arjaoui, Morocco
Men’s +91 kg: Aymen Trabelsi, Tunisia