Ramadan Yasser
 Ramadan Yasser (in red) v. Ramazan Magomedov (BLR) | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar |
| Nationality |  Egypt |
| Born | 19 July 1980 Gharbîya el-Saqriya, Al-Wadi Al-Jadid |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Boxing |
| Weight class | Light Heavyweight |
Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar (Arabic: ياسر رمضان عبد الغفار; born July 19, 1980, in Gharbîya el-Saqriya, Al-Wadi Al-Jadid) is a boxer from Egypt.
Career
[edit]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 Jung-Bin. In 2003, he repeated his win at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.
Yasser also participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. He was beaten in the quarterfinals of the middleweight (– 75 kg) division by Kazakhstan's world champion and eventual runner-up Gennady Golovkin.
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 defeated Jack Badou of Sweden (PTS 18:9) in the Preliminaries, and PanAm champion Eleider Alvarez of Colombia (KO R4 1:10) in the Round of 16, both of whom also had a bye in the first round. He then lost 9:18 to Lithuania's Daugirdas Semiotas.[citation needed]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics he was upset by Algeria's Abdelhafid Benchabla 6:13.[citation needed]
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- 1980 births
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- Olympic boxers for Egypt
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- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Egypt
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- African Games gold medalists for Egypt
- African Games medalists in boxing
- Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
- Competitors at the 1999 All-Africa Games
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- People from New Valley Governorate
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