Walid Cherif is a boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 from Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

, who won the gold medal in 2003 at the All-Africa Games

Boxing at the 2003 All-Africa Games

Boxing at the 8th All Africa Games was held in Abuja, Nigeria from October 4-13, 2003. It served as a qualification tournament for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...

 in Abuja, Nigeria.

He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each...

 for his native North Africa

North Africa

North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, linked by the Sahara to Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes eight countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, and...

n country. There he was beaten in the first round of the Flyweight (51 kg) division

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Flyweight

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 by Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

's Nikoloz Izoria

Nikoloz Izoria

Nikoloz Izoria is a boxer from Georgia.He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native country. There he was stopped in the second round of the Flyweight division by Azerbaijan's eventual bronze medalist Fuad Aslanov....

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Cherif also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

. He beat Australian Stephen Sutherland

Stephen Sutherland

Stephen Sutherland is an Australian amateur boxer who qualified for the 2008 Olympics at flyweight....

 and upset 2005 world champ Lee Ok-Sung

Lee Ok-Sung

Lee Ok-Sung is a South Korean amateur boxer best known for winning the 2005 World Championships in the men's flyweight division.-Career:Lee is relatively tall for a flyweight ....

 before losing 5:7 to Vincenzo Picardi

Vincenzo Picardi

Vincenzo Picardi is an Italian amateur boxer best known for winning a bronze medal in the flyweight division both at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago and at the Olympics 2008....

 in the quarterfinal. He was a member of the team that competed for Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 at the 2005 Boxing World Cup

2005 Boxing World Cup

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 in Moscow, Russia.