Mourad Sahraoui is an amateur boxer from Tunisia best known to win Gold in the heavyweight division at the 2007 All-African Games

Boxing at the 2007 All-Africa Games

The Boxing Tournament at the 2007 All-Africa Games was held in Algiers, Algeria from July 12 to July 21. It served as a qualification tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China. The number one and two earned a ticket for the Olympic tournament.- Medal winners :-Medals table:...

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Career

Sahraoui failed to qualify for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in third place at the 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

The 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament was held in Gaborone, Botswana from March 15 to March 22, 2004. It was the second and last chance for amateur boxers from Africa to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics after the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria...

 in Gaborone, Botswana. He won the 2005 Africa Championships. At the World Championships in 2005 he competed at light heavyweight and defeated Yusiel Napoles

Yusiel Napoles

Yusiel Nápoles Marcillan is a Cuban amateur boxer best known to win the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games at light heavyweight...

 and two other opponents, but lost in the quarterfinal to eventual winner Yerdos Dzhanabergenov.

At the Arab Championships 2007 he defeated Abdelhafid Benchebla

Abdelhafid Benchebla

Abdelhafid Benchabla is an Algerian boxer. He represented Algeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and is the current World Series of Boxing Light heavyweight champion.-Career:...

, but lost the final to Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian Ramadan Yasser

Ramadan Yasser

Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar is a boxer from Egypt.-Career:Yasser won the gold medal in the men's middleweight division at the 1999 All-Africa Games and went to the Olympics 2000 where he lost his first match 7:8 to Korea's Im Jeong-Bin...

 13:14. At the 2007 All-Africa Games

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...

 he fought at heavyweight and defeated David Assiene of Cameroon

Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

 and Abdelaziz Toulbini

Abdelaziz Toulbini

Abdelaziz Touilbini is an Algerian boxer. He is best known for having competed in the 2008 Olympics in the Heavyweight division.-Career:...

 of Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

 in the first rounds and then Lateef Kayode

Lateef Kayode

Lateef Kayode is an undefeated Nigerian professional boxer in the Cruiserweight division. He's the current WBO NABO and NABF Cruiserweight Champion.Lateef is trained by 4-time Trainer of the Year Freddie Roach.-Pro career:...

 of Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

 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

Zhang Xiaoping

Zhang Xiaoping is a Chinese amateur boxer who won a gold medal as a light heavyweight in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.-Career:He won two matches at the world championships 2007 including an upset over Germany's world military champion Gottlieb Weiss but lost to veteran Yerkabulan Shinaliev and fell...

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External links

• Africa 2005
• World Champs 2005
• Arabchamps 2007
• Results Africa 2007
• PanArab games
• Qualifier
• Mourad Sahraoui's profile at ESPN Sports