Ali Hallab (born 4 April 1981 in

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who competed from 2009 to 2013, holding the WBO European

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title from 2012 to 2013. As an amateur, he won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships.

Career

Hallab participated in the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

for his native European country. There he was stopped in the first round of the Bantamweight (54 kg) division by Algeria's

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. Hallab won the bronze medal at the

2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Perm, Russia from July 12 to July 21. The 34th edition of thi bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA The ''End All Be All'' ...

, and won the silver medal in the same division at the

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. He later won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships. At the

2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships The 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Chicago, United States from October 23, 2007 to November 3, 2007. It was held at the UIC Pavilion. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history. The competition is under the super ...

he lost to local hero

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. At the

2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...

he lost to Indian

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12-5.

Professional boxing record

References

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* * 1981 births Living people People from Mantes-la-Jolie Bantamweight boxers Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of France French people of Lebanese descent Sportspeople of Lebanese descent French male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Sportspeople from Yvelines Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing {{france-boxing-bio-stub