Benamar Meskine (born June 6, 1973) is a

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from

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. He participated in the

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for his native

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n country. He was defeated in the first round of the welterweight division by

Bakhtiyar Artayev Bakhtiyar Garifollauly Artayev (, ''Baqtiiar Ğarifollaūly Artaev''; born 14 March 1983) is a Kazakh amateur boxer who won the gold medal for Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was also the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for the outs ...

. Meskine qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in

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. In the final of the event he defeated home fighter Ait Hammi Miloud. Meskine won the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the

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1973 births Living people Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Algeria Algerian male boxers Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Algeria Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games African Games bronze medalists for Algeria African Games bronze medalists in boxing Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2003 All-Africa Games 21st-century Algerian sportsmen {{Algeria-boxing-bio-stub