▪️ African boxers won a total of 9 medals with two of them gold by Egypt’s Kelany Amir and Algeria’s Ichrak Chaib. Algeria was first followed by Egypt, Nigeria and Uganda.
11/11/2025
Algeria won five medals to become the top-placed African country in the Islamic Solidarity Games boxing tournament which ended on Sunday, November 9, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Algerian boxers won one gold, two silvers and two bronze medals.
Egypt placed second with one gold and a bronze, Nigeria third on silver while Uganda was fourth with one bronze.
Overall, Algeria was fourth behind winners Turkey 3-2-1, Uzbekistan second 3-1-2 and third-placed Azerbaijan 1-3-2. Egypt finished fifth 1-0-1, Nigeria joint seventh with Kyrgyzstan each with a silver and Uganda were joint 11th with Iran, Iraq and Palestine each having a bronze.
Photo by Duncan Kuria aka Sugar Ray
Reigning African Games light-welterweight champion and two-time AFBC Elite Championships title holder, Ichrak Chaib was the toast of Algeria, winning welterweight gold by outpointing Turkey’s Kabak Berlin 3-2.
Chaib is one of Algeria’s most decorated boxers. She also won bronze in the 2022 World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey and a gold medal in the 2022 Mediterranean Games.
Algeria’s two-time Africa champion Jugurtha Ait Bekka also made it to the final but settled for silver on losing 5-0 to Uzbekistan’s Madaminov Abdullah in the light-welterweight division.
Another Algerian in the finals Mohammed Abbas lost 4-1 to Egypt’s sole gold medallist Kelany Amir at bantamweight.
Nigeria’s African Games silver medallist Zainab Adeshina went home with another silver. She was stopped in the third round by Turkey’s Topliz Rabia in the flyweight division.
The bronze medallists were Algeria’s flyweight Fatiha Mansouri and featherweight Chahira Selmouni, Uganda’s light-heavyweight Alfred Ojok and Egypt’s light-middleweight Hekal Ahmed.
