Driss Moussaid (born March 29, 1988) is a boxer from
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
who won bronze at the World Junior Championships 2006 and qualified for the Olympics 2008 at junior welter.
Career
He won a bronze medal in 2006 at the world junior championship in his native country when he lost the semi to eventual Hungarian winner
Balazs Bacskai. At the Olympic qualifier he edged out All Africa champ
Hastings Bwalya
Hastings Bwalya (born 25 August 1985) is a Zambian boxer who won the 2007 All-Africa Games at junior welter, and then competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Career
Bwalya was defeated in the first round of the 2006 Commonwealth Games at lightwei ...
and also beat
Hamza Hassini
Hamza Hassini (born August 18, 1987) is a Tunisian amateur boxer. He qualified for the 2008 Olympics in the Light Welterweight division.
Hassini defeated, among others, Herbert Nkabiti and Abdelrahman Salah. A final loss to fellow qualifier Dri ...
. Moussaid beat
Todd Kidd
Todd Alan Kidd (born 15 April 1985) is an Australian amateur boxer best known to qualify for the Olympics 2008 at light welterweight.
Career
Kidd hails from Caboolture, Queensland and can train full-time due to sponsorships and won the Australi ...
of
Australia
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in the Men's Light Welter (64 kg) on the second day of the 2008
Beijing Olympics.
References
External links
QualifierYahoo profile
Living people
1988 births
Light-welterweight boxers
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of Morocco
Moroccan male boxers
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