- Ramadan Yasser
Ramadan Yasser Abdelghaffar (born
July 19 ,1980 ) is a boxer fromEgypt .Career
Yasser won the gold medal at middleweight in 1999 at the 1999 All-Africa Games and went to the Olympics 2000 where he lost his first match 7:8 to a Korean.
2003 he repeated his win at the All-Africa Games in
Abuja, Nigeria .He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There he was beaten in the quarterfinals of the Middleweight (75 kg) division by Kazakhstan's world champ and eventual runner-up
Gennadiy Golovkin .Light Heavyweight
In 2007 he won the All Africa Games as a light heavyweight.
Yasser reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships in
Chicago , fighting in the Light Heavyweight (81 kg) division. After having a bye in the first round, Yasser then defeated Jack Badou of Sweden (PTS 18:9) in the Preliminaries, and PanAm championEleider Alvarez of Colombia (KO R4 1:10) in the Round of 16, both of whom also had a bye in the first round before losing toDaugirdas Semiotas on points 9:18.At the 2008 Olympics he wa upset by
Abdelhafid Benchabla 6:13.Links
* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/WorldChamps2007.html 2007 results]
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