Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar ( ar, ياسر رمضان عبد الغفار; born July 19, 1980 in Gharbîya el-Saqriya, Al-Wadi Al-Jadid) is a boxer from

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Career

Yasser won the gold medal in the men's middleweight division at the

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and went to the Olympics 2000 where he lost his first match 7:8 to Korea's Im Jung-Bin. In 2003, he repeated his win at the

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in Abuja, Nigeria. Yasser also participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native

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n country. There, he was beaten in the quarterfinals of the middleweight (– 75 kg) division by Kazakhstan's world champion and eventual runner-up Gennady Golovkin. In 2007, he won the All Africa Games as a light heavyweight. Yasser reached the quarterfinals of the

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, fighting in the Light Heavyweight (81 kg) division. After having a bye in the first round, Yasser then defeated Jack Badou of Sweden (PTS 18:9) in the Preliminaries, and PanAm champion Eleider Alvarez of Colombia (KO R4 1:10) in the Round of 16, both of whom also had a bye in the first round before losing to Daugirdas Semiotas on points 9:18. At the 2008 Summer Olympics he was upset by

Abdelhafid Benchabla Abdelhafid Benchabla ( ar, عبد الحفيظ بن شبلة; born 26 September 1986, in Zemmouri) is an Algerian amateur boxer. He represented Algeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and the 2012 Summer Olympics and is the curren ...

: 6:13.

References

2007 results

1980 births Living people Middleweight boxers Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Egypt Egyptian male boxers {{Egypt-boxing-bio-stub Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Egypt Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games African Games gold medalists for Egypt African Games medalists in boxing Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 1999 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games People from New Valley Governorate