Invitation Places for the men’s Rio 2016 boxing competition
13 July 201613-07-2016 11:07
The Olympic Games Tripartite Commission, comprising the IOC, ANOC and ASOIF are called upon to provide smaller NOCs with the opportunity to compete at Olympic Games, has now awarded its Invitation Places for the 2016 Men’s Olympic Boxing competition.
The places can only be offered to NOCs with an average of eight or fewer athletes at the previous two Olympic Games, and are subject to approval from AIBA and the Commission itself. Following the lengthy appraisal process, athletes from Fiji, Jordan, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Zambia will be among the 250 male boxers competing at Rio 2016.
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