Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar (; born July 19, 1980, in Gharbîya el-Saqriya, Al-Wadi Al-Jadid) is a

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from

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Career

Yasser won the gold medal in the men's middleweight division at the

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and went to the Olympics 2000 where he lost his first match 7:8 to Korea's Im Jung-Bin. In 2003, he repeated his win at the

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. Yasser also participated at the

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for his native

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n country. He was beaten in the quarterfinals of the middleweight (– 75 kg) division by Kazakhstan's world champion and eventual runner-up

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. In 2007, he won the All-Africa Games as a light heavyweight. Yasser reached the quarterfinals of the

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, fighting in the Light Heavyweight (81 kg) division. After having a bye in the first round, Yasser defeated Jack Badou of Sweden (PTS 18:9) in the Preliminaries, and PanAm champion Eleider Alvarez of Colombia (KO R4 1:10) in the Round of 16, both of whom also had a bye in the first round. He then lost 9:18 to Lithuania's Daugirdas Semiotas. At the

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he was upset by Algeria's

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References

2007 results

1980 births Living people Middleweight boxers Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Egypt Egyptian male boxers Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Egypt Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games African Games gold medalists for Egypt African Games gold medalists in boxing Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 1999 All-Africa Games Boxers at the 2003 All-Africa Games Boxers at the 2007 All-Africa Games People from New Valley Governorate 21st-century Egyptian sportsmen {{Egypt-boxing-bio-stub