Roland Raforme

{{Short description|Seychellois boxer (born 1966)}}

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| nationality = Seychellois

| weight class = Light heavyweight
Heavyweight

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|11|3|df=y}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalSilver|1998 Kuala Lumpur|Heavyweight}}

{{MedalCompetition|All-Africa Games}}

{{MedalBronze|1991 Cairo|Light-heavyweight}}

{{MedalBronze|1995 Harare|Light-heavyweight}}

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Roland Bernard Raforme (born 5 April 1966) is a Seychellois former boxer and double Olympian.

Representing Seychelles in the men's light heavyweight category at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Raforme reached the quarter-finals where he was beaten by the Hungarian boxer Zoltán Béres on points. Returning four years later to compete in the same event at the Atlanta Games, he was stopped in the first round by Troy Amos-Ross. Raforme was more successful in the 1998 Commonwealth Games where he won a silver medal in the men's heavyweight category after losing in the final to Mark Simmons from Canada. Previously, he represented Seychelles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.{{cite web|url=http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/CommonwealthGames1994.html|title=15.Commonwealth Games – Victoria, Canada – August 18–28 1994|publisher=amateur-boxing.strefa.pl |accessdate=2016-03-04}}

Raforme was the flag bearer for Seychelles in the 1992 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/flagbearers?country_id=SEY |title=Flagbearers for Seychelles |website=olympedia.org |access-date=6 January 2024}}