Walid Cherif

{{Short description|Tunisian boxer (born 1978)}}

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| fullname = Walid Cherif

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| nationality = {{TUN}}

| weight class = Light Flyweight

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|3|9|df=y}}

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| height = {{convert|1.62|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|51|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

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{{MedalCompetition|All-Africa Games}}

{{MedalGold| 2003 Abuja | Flyweight}}

{{MedalCompetition |Mediterranean Games}}

{{MedalSilver| 2005 Almeíra | Flyweight}}

{{MedalBronze | 2001 Tunis | Light Flyweight}}

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Walid Cherif (born 9 March 1978) is a boxer from Tunisia, who won the gold medal in 2003 at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.

He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was beaten in the first round of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Georgia's Nikoloz Izoria.

Cherif also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He beat Australian Stephen Sutherland and upset 2005 world champ Lee Ok-Sung before losing 5:7 to Italy's Vincenzo Picardi in the quarterfinal. He was a member of the team that competed for Africa at the 2005 Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia.

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