José Miguel Boissard Ramírez (born December 4, 1978 in San Cristóbal) is a

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from the Dominican Republic, who competed in the men's half-middleweight category. He picked up a total of twelve medals in his career, including two bronzes from the Pan American Judo Championships, attained a fifth-place finish in the 81-kg division at the

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in Santo Domingo, and represented his nation Dominican Republic at the

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. Boissard qualified for the Dominican Republic squad in the men's half-middleweight category at the

in Athens, by placing seventh and receiving a berth from the Pan American Championships in Margarita Island, Venezuela. He lost his opening match to Germany's

Florian Wanner Florian Wanner (born 2 February 1978, in Wolfratshausen, Upper Bavaria) is a German judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日 ...

, who placed him into an upper four-quarter hold (

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) to score an ippon victory at one minute and twenty-three seconds.

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* 1978 births Living people Dominican Republic male judoka Olympic judoka for the Dominican Republic Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2003 Pan American Games Sportspeople from San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic Pan American Games competitors for the Dominican Republic 20th-century Dominican Republic people 21st-century Dominican Republic people {{DominicanRepublic-judo-bio-stub