Boxing at the 2013 Mediterranean Games

Boxing at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Location	Mersin, Turkey
Dates	21–26 June 2013

The boxing competitions at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin took place between 21 June and 26 June at the Toroslar Sports Hall. Athletes competed in 10 weight categories. Even though women's boxing has been recently introduced to some multi-sports events, only men's boxing events were held.[1]

80 boxers from eighteen countries participated. All countries won at least one medal except Albania, Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria. Algeria dominated the competition by winning five gold and one bronze medal. Macedonia's Fatlum Zhuta secured first medal for his country at the Mediterranean Games after winning his quarterfinal match on Day 3.

Medal summary

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight details	Mohamed Flissi (ALG)	Ferhat Pehlivan (TUR)	Ramy Elawady (EGY)
			Manuel Cappai (ITA)
Flyweight details	José Kelvin de la Nieve (ESP)	Vincenzo Picardi (ITA)	Erdal İnanlı (TUR)
			Abdelali Daraa (MAR)
Bantamweight details	Reda Benbaziz (ALG)	Hesham Abdelaal (EGY)	Elias Friha (FRA)
			Mehmet Topçakan (TUR)
Lightweight details	Sofiane Oumiha (FRA)	Bünyamin Aydın (TUR)	Fabio Introvaia (ITA)
			Mohamed Amine Ouadahi (ALG)
Light welterweight details	Abdelkader Chadi (ALG)	Fatih Keleş (TUR)	Alexandros Tsanikidis (GRE)
			Eslam Mohamed (EGY)
Welterweight details	Ilyas Abbadi (ALG)	Youba Sissocko (ESP)	Alfonso Di Russo (ITA)
			Mohamed Amine Meskini (TUN)
Middleweight details	Adem Kılıççı (TUR)	Hosam Abdin (EGY)	Luca Capuano (ITA)
			Fatlum Zhuta (MKD)
Light heavyweight details	Abdelhafid Benchabla (ALG)	Abdelkader Bouhenia (FRA)	Avni Yıldırım (TUR)
			Džemal Bošnjak (BIH)
Heavyweight details	Fabio Turchi (ITA)	Josip Bepo Filipi (CRO)	Nikola Milačić (MNE)
			Fotios Arapoglou (GRE)
Super heavyweight details	Roberto Cammarelle (ITA)	Ali Eren Demirezen (TUR)	Mohammed Arjaoui (MAR)
			Madian Ahmed (EGY)

Medal table

Key:

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Algeria	5	0	1	6
2	Italy	2	1	4	7
3	Turkey*	1	4	3	8
4	France	1	1	1	3
5	Spain	1	1	0	2
6	Egypt	0	2	3	5
7	Croatia	0	1	0	1
8	Greece	0	0	2	2
	Morocco	0	0	2	2
10	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Macedonia	0	0	1	1
	Montenegro	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		10	10	20	40

Participating nations

Eighteen Mediterranean nations have registered for boxing competitions.

• Albania
• Algeria
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Egypt
• France
• Greece
• Italy
• Lebanon
• Macedonia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Syria
• Tunisia
• Turkey

References

1. Boxing Programme Archived June 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine