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Mehrullah Lassi (born November 24, 1979,
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i amateur boxer best known to win a gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games.


Career

Mehrullah Lassi joined the
Karachi Port Trust The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) ( ur, ) is a Pakistani federal government agency under the administrative control of the Federal Maritime Secretary that oversees the operations of the Port of Karachi, one of South Asia's largest and busiest d ...
boxing club in 1995. He won a gold medal at Asian Games 2002 in the featherweight division. Mehrullah Lassi qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in
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. In the final, he defeated China's Liu Yuan. At the Olympics, he tried his hands at a lower division, bantam category, but lost his first bout against superstar and two-time winner
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. After that, he reverted to fighting in featherweight division. In 2005, he fought Olympic silver medalist Kim Song-Guk but the match ended up in a draw. In the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he lost the final to Stephen Smith with final score being 10:20. In his career's last years he used to spar on GEO TV's live broadcast match "EK MUKA AUR" (ONE MORE PUNCH). He and his fellow countryman Faisal Karim were banned for life for failing the cannabis drugs test during the South Asian Games in Sri Lanka.


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* 1979 births Living people Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Pakistan Asian Games medalists in boxing Olympic boxers of Pakistan Boxers at the 2002 Asian Games Recipients of the Pride of Performance Pakistani male boxers Doping cases in boxing Asian Games gold medalists for Pakistan Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Featherweight boxers 21st-century Pakistani people Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games {{pakistan-boxing-bio-stub