Mourad Sahraoui ( ar, مراد الصحراوي) (born January 12, 1983) is an amateur boxer from Tunisia best known to win Gold in the heavyweight division at the 2007 All-African Games.

Career

Sahraoui failed to qualify for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in third place at the

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. He won the 2005 Africa Championships. At the World Championships in 2005 he competed at light heavyweight and defeated Yusiel Napoles and two other opponents, but lost in the quarterfinal to eventual winner

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. At the Arab Championships 2007 he defeated Abdelhafid Benchebla, but lost the final to

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Ramadan Yasser Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar ( ar, ياسر رمضان عبد الغفار; born July 19, 1980 in Gharbîya el-Saqriya, Al-Wadi Al-Jadid) is a boxer from Egypt. Career Yasser won the gold medal in the men's middleweight division at the 1999 ...

13:14. At the

2007 All-Africa Games The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nige ...

he fought at heavyweight and defeated David Assiene of

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Abdelaziz Toulbini Abdelaziz Touilbini (born October 16, 1978) is an Algerian boxer. He is best known for having competed in the 2008 Olympics in the Heavyweight division. Career In 2007, Touilbini won bronze at the All-Africa Games after losing to eventual winner ...

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in the first rounds and then

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in the final. At the PanArab Games he once again fought at light heavy and again was edged out by Yasser in the final 6:7. He qualified for the Olympics 2008 but lost to Zhang Xiaoping 1:3.

External links

Africa 2005Mourad Sahraoui's profile at ESPN Sports

1983 births Living people Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Tunisia Tunisian male boxers Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Tunisia Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games African Games gold medalists for Tunisia African Games medalists in boxing Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games Heavyweight boxers 21st-century Tunisian people {{Tunisia-boxing-bio-stub