Bastir Samir (born May 19, 1989) is a

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

ian boxer who won silver in the welterweight division at the

2007 All-Africa Games The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nige ...

. He qualified for the Olympics 2008 in the light-heavyweight division.

Career

Samir is the brother of bantamweight Issa Samir and is the team captain of Ghana's national team ''Black Bombers''. He won the African Championships in the welterweight division in May 2007. At the All-African Games he knocked out

Hosam Bakr Abdin Hosam Bakr Abdin (born October 26, 1985) is an Egyptian boxer who won a welterweight bronze at the 2007 All-Africa Games and later qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Career At the Arab Championships he lost to Tunisian Rached Me ...

, but lost the final bout to

Rached Merdassi Rached Merdassi (Arabic: رشيد المرداسي) is a Tunisian boxer who has won the Africa Games 2007 at welterweight Career At the AllAfrica Games he beat Ghanaian puncher Bastir Samir in the final. At the Olympic qualification he was disq ...

. He missed the world championships as he could not make the weight and had to jump two weight classes to light-heavyweight to qualify for the

2008 Summer 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 Na ...

because

Ahmed Saraku Ahmed Saraku (born 1986) is a Ghanaian amateur boxer who won silver at the Light Heavyweight 81kg at the African Championship Madagascar 2007. At the 2007 All-Africa Games he dropped down to middleweight and won silver. He qualified for the ...

was the established middleweight. He managed to achieve this in the second qualifier.

Professional record

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References

External links

Africa Championships

* Living people Welterweight boxers Light-heavyweight boxers 1986 births Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Ghana Ghanaian male boxers African Games silver medalists for Ghana African Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games {{Ghana-boxing-bio-stub