It has been reported that no South African amateur boxers will be competing at the 2020 Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August, where Japan will be hosting the Games for the second time since the 1964 Olympics.
The first boxing qualification event, held in Sakar, Senegal, closed on February 29 with 33 athletes winning a slot at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Algeria holds the highest number of slots from the Africa boxing qualifiers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games.
Kenyan boxers have one last chance of qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after just two of their pugilists made it at the African qualifiers in Dakar, Senegal.
There is indeed no substitute for preparation. The dismal performance of Uganda boxing at the just concluded Dakar Africa Olympic qualifier is a classic endorsement of this analogy.
Uganda National Boxing team “Bombers” Captain, Shadir Musa Bwogi is the only boxer that has directly qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
Ghana’s Samuel Takyie became the second member of the Black Bombers to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games on Saturday.
Kenya’s Christine Ongare defeated Uganda’s Catherine Nanziri at the Africa Boxing Olympics qualifiers in Dakar, Senegal to book her place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Wilfred Seyi Ntsengue of Cameroon secured a place at this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo with victory over top-seed David Ssemujju of Uganda in the middleweight box-off at the African qualifier in Dakar.
Kenyan boxers Elizabeth Akinyi and Elly Ajowi are out of the race to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.