Ahmed Saraku
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Men's Boxing | ||
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All-Africa Games | ||
2007 Algiers | Middleweight |
Ahmed Saraku (born 1986) is a Ghanaian amateur boxer who won silver at the Light Heavyweight 81 kg at the African Championship Madagascar 2007. At the 2007 All-Africa Games he dropped down to middleweight and won silver. He qualified for the Olympics by winning two fights and won silver early in 2008.
Career
[edit]He became national welterweight champion in 2005 and went to the Commonwealth Games 2006 where he lost his first bout 7:13 to Neil Perkins.
At the African Championships he competed at light heavy and won silver.
At the All-Africa Games he dropped down to middleweight and lost the final 8:9 to local hero Nabil Kassel. At the world championships, he lost his first bout to Bosco Draskovic.
He qualified for the Olympics by winning two bouts in a qualifier, one of them against Daniel Shishia.
Personal life
[edit]Saraku is married to Ghanaian-born Australian Sabina Saraku.[citation needed] They have a daughter.[citation needed]
External links
[edit]- Bio[permanent dead link ]
- All Africa games 2007
- Ahmed Saraku at Olympics.com
- Ahmed Saraku at Olympedia
- Ahmed Saraku at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Ahmed Saraku at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Middleweight boxers
- Welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Ghana
- Ghanaian male boxers
- African Games silver medalists for Ghana
- African Games medalists in boxing
- Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Ghana
- 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen
- Ghanaian boxing biography stubs