Victor Ramos (boxer)

{{short description|East Timorese boxer}}

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|country = East Timor

|event = Men's Lightweight

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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|4|14|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Bobonaro, Bobonaro, Portuguese Timor (now Timor Leste)

|height = 1.68m

|weight = 60kg

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Victor Ramos (born 14 April 1970){{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/victor-ramos-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418005944/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/victor-ramos-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|title=Victor Ramos}} Olympics at Sport-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Accessed 14 August 2014. is a retired East Timorese boxer. He was one of the first athletes to represent East Timor at the Olympic Games, when he competed at the Men's lightweight Boxing event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, though he technically competed as an individual athlete because East Timor was newly independent and had not yet been formally recognized by the International Olympic Committee.The Australian [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/london-games/on-the-bottom-of-the-leaderboard/story-fne39r9e-1226436579369 From the bottom of the leaderboard July 27 2012] Retrieved on August 14, 2014 He was also the flag bearer for the Independent Olympians at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417093154/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IOA/ Individual Olympic Athletes]. Olympics at Sport-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Accessed 14 August 2014. Ramos was one of the ten East Timorese athletes who received training in Darwin prior to his participation in the Sydney Olympic Games.{{cite news|url=http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesBoxing/aug15_ram.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140814173453/http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesBoxing/aug15_ram.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 14, 2014|title=Ramos running toward Olympics|date=15 August 2000|work=AP|publisher=canoe.ca|accessdate=14 August 2014|location=Darwin, Australia }} However, he lost in round 1 against Ghanaian boxer Raymond Narh and did not advance any further.{{cite news|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/artikel.php?ID=11244|title=Sydney2000: Raymond Narh in good start|date=18 September 2000|publisher=Ghanaweb|accessdate=14 August 2014|location=Ghana}}

Besides competing in the 2000 Summer Olympics, Ramos also competed in the 1997 Southeast Asian Games, where he won a bronze medal representing Indonesia.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/09/sports/olympics-east-timor-athletes-enjoy-independence.html|title=OLYMPICS; East Timor Athletes Enjoy Independence|last=Longman|first=Jere|date=9 September 2000|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=14 August 2014}}

The Sydney Olympics followed East Timor's declaration of independence from Indonesia in 1999, and the ensuing violence, and Ramos, like many other East Timorese, fled into the hills with his parents and siblings to escape from the violence.