AFBC Boxing

🇨🇩 Countdown to the Africa Elite Boxing Championships, Kinshasa, DR Congo, October 14-27

MOROCCO TO DEFEND TITLE
▫️ The North Africans won the overall crown with a record eight gold medals in last year's Africa Championships in Yaounde.

Morocco will defend the overall title in this year's Africa Elite Boxing Championships scheduled for Kinshasa, DR Congo, from October 14-27.

The Secretary-General of Royal Moroccan Boxing Federation (FRMB) Zoubida Wissam confirmed the North Africans will participate in the DRC tournament.

"We will definitely be there," said Zoubida but did not release more details on the composition of their team.

Morocco won last year's tournament in Yaounde, Cameroon, with a record eight gold, two silver and three bronze medals.

The eight gold medallists were minimumweight Yasmine Mouttaki, flyweight Said Mortaji, female bantamweight Widad Bertal, men's bantamweight Azoui Imad, featherweight Soulaimane Samghouli, middleweight Mohamed Rabii, cruiserweight Mohammed Assaghir and heavyweight Khadija Mardi.

Silver: light-flyweight Rabab Cheddar and welterweight Oumayma Bel Ahbib.

Bronze: featherweight Nouhalia Hlioui, lightweight Nesrine Amine and light-welterweight Nadir Andelhaq.

The composition of the technical team is yet to be known after the Royal Moroccan Boxing Federation dissolved the entire technical management team led by Othmane Fadli after the Paris Olympics.

Immediately on return home, the federation president Abdeljaoud Beljaj convened an emergency meeting to discuss what they felt was a dismal performance by their three female boxers at the Paris Olympics after which the technical team was shown the door. The federation is also not amused by failure of their male boxers to qualify for the Paris Olympics and their luckluster performance in the World Olympic Qualifiers.

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🇫🇷 2024 Paris Olympic Games, July 26 - August 10

MARDI IN QUARTER-FINALS
▫️ She meets Australia's Catlin Parker

World champion Khadija Mardi squeezed her way to the quarter-finals with a 3-2 win over Britain's Chantelle Reid in a middleweight round of 16 bout at the North Paris Arena on Wednesday, July 31.

The Moroccan double African champion now meets Australia's world championships silver medallist Catlin Parker in the quarter-finals on August 4.

Khadija did not use her height advantage effectively, allowing her shorter British opponent room to score on the clinch. She was too caution in her approach.

Against Parker, Khadija will have to be more aggressive and throw punches in bunches to keep Parker at bay.

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