Ilyas Abbadi (born 21 October 1992) is an Algerian

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. As an amateur, he competed in the men's welterweight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was defeated in the first round by British fighter Fred Evans. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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, he competed in the men's middleweight division. He was defeated in the second round by Zhanibek Alimkhanuly of

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. Abbadi also won silver medals at the 2011

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and the 2011 Arab Championships.

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* Living people 1992 births Algerian male boxers Welterweight boxers Southpaw boxers Olympic boxers of Algeria Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Algeria Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2015 African Games People from Médéa {{Algeria-boxing-bio-stub