Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar ( ar, ياسر رمضان عبد الغفار; born July 19, 1980 in Gharbîya el-Saqriya,

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) is a

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from

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Career

Yasser won the gold medal in the men's middleweight division at the 1999 All-Africa Games and went to the Olympics 2000 where he lost his first match 7:8 to Korea's

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. In 2003, he repeated his win at the All-Africa Games in

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. Yasser also participated at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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

2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships The 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Chicago, United States from October 23, 2007 to November 3, 2007. It was held at the UIC Pavilion. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history. The competition is under the super ...

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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 The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

he was upset by Abdelhafid Benchabla: 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