Mehdi Assous ( ar, المهدي عزوز; born September 25, 1977) is a retired male
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
* Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
*Boxer (dog), a breed of dog
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from
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. He represented his native
North Africa
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n country at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta, Georgia
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, where he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the men's flyweight division (– 51 kg) by eventual bronze medalist
Zoltan Lunka
Zoltan Lunka (born 22 May 1970 in Miercurea Nirajului, Romania) was a professional boxing, boxer, who won a Olympic medalists in boxing, Flyweight bronze medal at the Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Summer Olympics for Germany. A year ea ...
from Germany.
References
sports-reference
1972 births
Living people
Flyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Algeria
Algerian male boxers
21st-century Algerian people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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