Tahar Tamsamani (born 10 September 1980) is a retired Moroccan boxer. He competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 2000. In 2000 he won a bronze medal in the featherweight (57 kg) division, after falling in the semifinals to

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's Bekzat Sattarkhanov. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he was defeated in the first bout of the lightweight (60 kg) division by

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. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the

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. In the final of the event he defeated Tunisia's

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. At the 2008 Olympic qualifier he lost to Hamza Kramou but won the third-place bout and therefore qualified for his third Olympics. In

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he lost to

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in the first bout.

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