Boxing
Tunisia qualified five boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. All five boxers qualified at the first African qualifier.
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |
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Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Rank | ||
Walid Cherif | Flyweight | Sutherland (AUS) W 14–2 |
Lee O-S (KOR) W 11–5 |
Picardi (ITA) L 5-7 |
Did not advance | ||
Alaa Shili | Featherweight | Gratschow (GER) W 14–5 |
Santos (MEX) L 2–14 |
Did not advance | |||
Saifeddine Nejmaoui | Lightweight | Tishchenko (RUS) L 2–10 |
Did not advance | ||||
Hamza Hassini | Light welterweight | Sepahvand (IRI) L 4–16 |
Did not advance | ||||
Mourad Sahraoui | Light heavyweight | Zhang Xp (CHN) L 1–3 |
Did not advance |
Read more about this topic: Tunisia At The 2008 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxingfor one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched its impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)