Bastir Samir (born May 19, 1989) is a

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

ian boxer who won silver in the welterweight division at the

2007 All-Africa Games The 9th All-Africa Games (; ), also known as Algiers 2007 (), took place from 11 to 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers became the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were a ...

. He qualified for the Olympics 2008 in the light-heavyweight division.

Career

Samir is the brother of bantamweight Issa Samir and is the team captain of Ghana's national team ''Black Bombers''. He won the African Championships in the welterweight division in May 2007. At the All-African Games, he knocked out Egypt's

Hosam Bakr Abdin Hossam Hussein Bakr Abdin (born October 26, 1985) is an Egyptian boxer who won a welterweight bronze at the 2007 All-Africa Games and later qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also won gold in his weight division at the Afr ...

, but lost the final bout to Tunisia's

Rached Merdassi Rached Merdassi (Arabic: رشيد المرداسي) is a Tunisian boxer who has won the Africa Games 2007 at welterweight Career At the AllAfrica Games he beat Ghanaian puncher Bastir Samir in the final. At the Olympic qualification he was disq ...

. He missed the world championships as he could not make the weight and had to jump two weight classes to light-heavyweight to qualify for the

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

because

Ahmed Saraku Ahmed Saraku (born 1986) is a Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the w ...

was the established middleweight. He managed to achieve this in the second qualifier.

Professional record

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References

External links

Africa Championships

* Living people Welterweight boxers Light-heavyweight boxers 1986 births Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Ghana Ghanaian male boxers African Games silver medalists for Ghana African Games silver medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2007 All-Africa Games Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen {{Ghana-boxing-bio-stub