The first medallists are revealed at the All Africa Games in Accra

The first medallists are revealed in the boxing tournament of the All Africa Games which is running with busy competition days in Accra, Ghana.

The sport entries check and the official draw confirmed the participation of 64 female and 148 male boxers from 33 various countries in Accra.

The All Africa Games was planning to host on August 2023 but due to economic reasons, the multisport event moved to March 2024.

Algeria’s African Champion Roumayssa Boualam has already qualified for the Paris Olympics and she uses the event in Accra as a direct preparation. The light flyweight (50kg) boxer was too experienced for DR Congo’s Benedicte Diyoka and she won this quarter-final by unanimous decision.

Morocco’s Yasmine Mouttaki, Nigeria’s Zainab Adeshina and Liberia’s new sensation, Grace Zinnah Fanhbulleh defeated their rivals at the women’s light flyweight (50kg) and all of them joined to Boualam to the semi-finals.

DR Congo’s Gisele Nyembo is only a 20-year-old athlete but she had the ring experience to beat Tanzania’s professional boxer, Zulfa Rwenda Macho. Ethiopia’s Bethelhem Gayiza, Morocco’s Olympian Rabab Cheddar and Tunisia’s Chadha Jlassi are the further medallists at the women’s flyweight (52kg).

The host nation’s pride, Samuel Takyi, Africa’s last Olympic medallist in boxing, is back on track and the light welterweight (63.5kg) boxer advanced to the last eight following his easy RSC success over Morocco’s Mehdi Berchami.

South Africa’s experienced John Paul Masamba had an even easier way to the quarter-finals, he knocked out Equatorial Guinea’s Santiago Martin Ondo Ayang still in the first round of their meeting.

DR Congo’s Fiston Mbaya Mulumba has nine years of international routine and several medals from the African events therefore he looked the favourite against Kenya’s Aloice Vincent Ochieng. The 30-year-old boxer had lethal combinations in the second round and the referee confirmed his KO triumph in Accra.