Nigeria featuring six boxers for Olympic qualifiers ¹:
– Six boxers from Nigeria have been registered to fight for places at the forthcoming Paris 2024 Games’ second Window qualification tournament slated for Bangkok, Thailand.
– The Secretary-General, Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF), Dapo Akinyele, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos.
– Elite boxers across the globe will converge in Bangkok from May 23 to June 3, for 2024 Paris Olympics qualifiers.
– Akinyele stated that the Federation was focusing on female pugilists because they had a better chance of punching their way into the French capital, Paris for the Games.
– If all goes as planned, we shall take four female and two male boxers to Bangkok but if we have to reduce the overall figure to five, we shall present three female and two male pugilists.
– Nigeria will fighting for honours in the 50, 57, 66, 75 and +92kg categories.