▪️Ojok wins bronze following defeat in the semi-finals
09/11/2025
Uganda won one bronze medal in the ongoing Islamic Solidarity Games boxing tournament in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Coach Sam Kabugo told boxersworld.co.ke from Riyadh his sole semi-finalist Alfred Ojok (pictured) was beaten on points by Turkey’s Osmanli Sultan in the light-heavyweight division on Sunday, November 9, 2025.
Kabugo explained why Ojok, normally a middleweight, moved up to light-heavyweight.
“There were limited weight classes for this tournament, so the middleweight was not among them that’s why Ojok boxed as light-heavy,” said Kabugo from Riyadh.
“As a coach I was impressed not by the results but the performance a since of the two boys, much as they lost but they put up a remarkable performance since it was their first international tournament of this magnitude at the intercontinental level more especially that their opponents were already established contenders at this level and beyond, Europe, world and other levels of that nature.
Ojok, a silver medallist in the Africa Zone 3 Championships, qualified for the semis with a points victory over Iran’s southpaw Mohamad Nourani in the quarter-finals.
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