Driss Moussaid (born March 29, 1988) is a boxer from
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...
who won bronze at the World Junior Championships 2006 and qualified for the Olympics 2008 at Junior Welter.
Career
He won a bronze medal in 2006 at the World Junior Championship in his native country when he lost the semifinals to eventual Hungarian winner Balazs Bacskai. At the Olympic qualifier he edged out All Africa champ
Hastings Bwalya
Hastings Bwalya (born 25 August 1985) is a Zambian boxer who won the 2007 All-Africa Games at junior welter, and then competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Career
Bwalya was defeated in the first round of the 2006 Commonwealth Games at lightwei ...
and also beat
Hamza Hassini. Moussaid beat
Todd Kidd of
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
in the Men's Light Welter (64 kg) on the second day of the 2008
Beijing Olympics.
References
External links
QualifierYahoo profile
Living people
1988 births
Light-welterweight boxers
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Morocco
Moroccan male boxers
21st-century Moroccan sportsmen
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