Kenya's Atieno and Otieno win gold, Mbithe silver at World Boxing Africa Elite Championships in Nairobi

Grace Atieno and Rosemarion Otieno won gold for Kenya in the finals of the World Boxing Africa Elite Championships at the Kasarani Indoor Arena in Nairobi on 22 October, and Veronica Mbithe took silver. The Standard called them Kenya's first two golds. The Eastleigh Voice, a Kenyan news site, reported on 22 October that Juliet Opondo (heavyweight, beat Rachel Msengi) and Friza Asiko (light middleweight, beat Egypt's Hamza Tia on points) also won gold. The Nigerian sports site Sports247 reported that Elizabeth Akinyi lost the 75-80kg final to Nigeria's Blessing Orakwe by a first-round knockout.

Atieno won the 46-48kg final when the referee stopped the contest in the third round against Tanzania's Veronica Mapunda. "I'm happy to have won my first gold medal in an international assignment," she said, as quoted by The Standard.

Otieno, a Germany-based boxer, won the lightweight final against Algeria's Ichrak Chaib on a unanimous points decision. She had reached the final with a 5-0 win over Egypt's Mohammed Rahma, the Kenyan news site Citizen Digital reported.

Mbithe, the national flyweight champion, lost the flyweight final 4-1 to Algeria's Fatiha Mansouri. She had beaten Uganda's Brenda Muuwa 5-0 in the semi-final. In October 2025 she won gold at the Africa Zone 3 Boxing Championships, also held at Kasarani.

Kenyans who won bronze included Amina Martha, Boniface Mogunde, Edwin Okong'o, Steve Onyango, Peter Abuti and Chrispine Ochanda. Martha lost her bantamweight (51-54kg) semi-final to Nigeria's Ajishola Khadijat, who went on to win the gold. Mogunde, the team captain, was defending his light-middleweight title. Okong'o is an Africa Games middleweight gold medallist.

Africa Boxing, led by Solomon Kargbo, organised the tournament under the World Boxing umbrella. The International Boxing Association (IBA) is also holding a rival continental championship in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).