Saifeddine Nejmaoui (born May 5, 1981) is a

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n boxer who won the lightweight division 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 ...

and twice competed at the

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a multi ...

: 2004 and 2008. In Athens 2004 he lost his first match to Frenchman Khedafi Djelkhir (13:38). He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the

1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament The 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament was held in Casablanca, Morocco from January 15 to January 22, 2004 in sports, 2004. It was the first chance for amateur boxing, amateur boxers from Africa to qualify for the 2004 Sum ...

Casablanca, Morocco Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

. In the final of the event he defeated Uganda's

Brian Mayanja Brian Mayanja (born January 25, 1983) is a boxer from Uganda, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native African country. There he was outscored in the first round of the Featherweight (57 kg) division by Kazakhstan's Galib Ja ...

. Nejmaoui won the African Championships in 2005. At the All-Africa Games he won the lightweight title in Algiers defeating

Owethu Mbira Owethu Mbira (born 6 March 1987) is a South African professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2011. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at lightweight at the 2007 All-Africa Games. Career At the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, he upset lo ...

in the semis. At the qualification he won all his matches including against Hamza Kramou, but his draw at the Olympic Games matched him with reigning Olympic Featherweight Champion Aleksei Tishchenko and he lost on points (2:10).

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1981 births Living people Lightweight boxers Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Tunisia Tunisian male boxers African Games gold medalists for Tunisia African Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games 21st-century Tunisian people 20th-century Tunisian people {{Tunisia-boxing-bio-stub