African Boxing Championships | |
Status: | Active |
Genre: | Sports event |
Date: | Midyear |
Frequency: | Annual |
First: | 1962 / 2001 |
Organised: | AFBC |
The African Amateur Boxing Championships is the premier pan-continental annual competition for amateur boxing in Africa. The championships are organised by the continent's governing body, the African Boxing Union (ABU). The first edition of the tournament took place in 1962.
From 2017, it was held Men and Women in same country and same time.
width=20 | Number ! | width=20 | Year ! | width=230 | Host ! | width=180 | Dates ! | width=20 | Events ! | width=20 | Nations ! | width=20 | Boxers ! | width=250 | Champion |
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1 | 1962 | Cairo, Egypt | 17–23 March | 10 | Egypt / | ||||||||||
2 | 1964 | Accra, Ghana | ... April–... May | 10 | 8 | Ghana / | |||||||||
3 | 1966 | Lagos, Nigeria | 26–30 April | 10 | 14 | ||||||||||
4 | 1968 | Lusaka, Zambia | 6–11 May | 11 | 16 | ||||||||||
5 | 1972 | Nairobi, Kenya | 28 February–4 March | 11 | |||||||||||
6 | 1974 | Kampala, Uganda | 9–14 December | 11 | |||||||||||
7 | 1979 | Benghazi, Libya | 12–21 July | 11 | |||||||||||
8 | 1983 | Kampala, Uganda | 17–25 August | 11 | Zambia | ||||||||||
9 | 1994 | Johannesburg, South Africa | ...–... December | 12 | |||||||||||
10 | 1998 | Algiers, Algeria | 7–17 May | 12 | 15 | 220 | |||||||||
11 | 2001 | Port Louis, Mauritius | 14–20 May | 12 | |||||||||||
12 | 2003 | Yaoundé, Cameroon | 9–18 May | 11 | 14 | 90 | |||||||||
14 | 2005 | Casablanca, Morocco | 29 April–8 May | 11 | |||||||||||
15 | 2007 | Antananarivo, Madagascar | 21–27 May | 11 | |||||||||||
16 | 2009 | Vacoas, Mauritius | 21–26 July | 11 | |||||||||||
17 | 2011 | Yaoundé, Cameroon | 3–10 June | 10 | |||||||||||
18 | 2015 | Casablanca, Morocco | 17–24 August | 10 | 19 | 103 |
width=20 | Number ! | width=20 | Year ! | width=230 | Host ! | width=180 | Dates ! | width=20 | Events ! | width=20 | Nations ! | width=20 | Boxers ! | width=250 | Champion |
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1 | 2001 | Cairo, Egypt | 5–9 July | 11 | |||||||||||
2 | 2010 | Yaoundé, Cameroon | 23–28 March | 7 | |||||||||||
3 | 2014 | Yaoundé, Cameroon | 3–7 March | 5 |
width=20 rowspan=2 | Number ! | width=20 rowspan=2 | Year ! | width=230 rowspan=2 | Host ! | width=180 rowspan=2 | Dates ! | width=20 rowspan=2 | Events ! | width=20 rowspan=2 | Nations ! | width=20 rowspan=2 | Boxers ! | width=360 colspan=3 | Champion |
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width=120 | Men ! | width=120 | Women ! | width=120 | Total | ||||||||||
19 | 2017 | Brazzaville, Congo | 18–25 June | 18 | 24 | 183 | |||||||||
20 | 2022 | Maputo, Mozambique | 12–17 September | 24 | 24 | 211 | |||||||||
21 | 2023 | Yaoundé, Cameroon | 28 July –6 August | 25 | 27 | 264 |
As of 2015 inclueding men's events of the combined editions until 2023:
As of 2014 inclueding women's events of the combined editions until 2023: