Mourad Sahraoui
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Mourad Sahraoui (Arabic: مراد الصحراوي) (born January 12, 1983) is an amateur boxer from Tunisia best known for winning Gold in the heavyweight division at the 2007 All-African Games.
Career
[edit]Sahraoui failed to qualify for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in third place at the 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana. He won the 2005 Africa Championships. At the World Championships in 2005 he competed at light heavyweight and defeated Yusiel Napoles and two other opponents, but lost in the quarterfinal to eventual winner Yerdos Dzhanabergenov.
At the Arab Championships 2007 he defeated Abdelhafid Benchebla, but lost the final to Egyptian Ramadan Yasser 13:14. At the 2007 All-Africa Games he fought at heavyweight and defeated David Assiene of Cameroon and Abdelaziz Toulbini of Algeria in the first rounds and then Lateef Kayode of Nigeria 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 1:3.
External links
[edit]- Africa 2005
- World Champs 2005
- Arabchamps 2007
- Results Africa 2007
- PanArab games
- Qualifier
- Mourad Sahraoui's profile at ESPN Sports
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- 1983 births
- Living people
- Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Tunisia
- Tunisian male boxers
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Tunisia
- Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- African Games gold medalists for Tunisia
- African Games medalists in boxing
- Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
- Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- Heavyweight boxers
- 21st-century Tunisian sportsmen
- African boxing biography stubs
- Tunisian martial arts biography stubs