Mourad Sahraoui
{{Short description|Tunisian boxer (born 1983)}}
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|birth_date=January 12, 1983
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{{MedalCountry | {{TUN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|All-Africa Games}}
{{MedalGold| 2007 Algiers | Heavyweight}}
{{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}}
{{MedalGold| 2001 Tunis | Light Heavyweight}}
{{MedalGold| 2005 Almeíra | Light Heavyweight}}
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Mourad Sahraoui ({{langx|ar|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
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
- [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AfricanChampionships2005.html Africa 2005]
- [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/WorldChamps2005.html World Champs 2005]
- [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/ArabChamps2007.html Arabchamps 2007]
- [http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AllAfricaGames2007.html Results Africa 2007]
- [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/PanArabGames2007.html PanArab games]
- [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AfricanOlyQual2008_1.html Qualifier]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120106122205/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/fanguide/athlete?id=23524 Mourad Sahraoui's profile at ESPN Sports]
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Category:Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic boxers for Tunisia
Category:Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Tunisia
Category:Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Category:Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Category:African Games gold medalists for Tunisia
Category:African Games gold medalists in boxing
Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
Category:Boxers at the 2007 All-Africa Games
Category:21st-century Tunisian sportsmen
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