Bastir Samir

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Medal record
Competitor for Ghana
Men's Boxing
All-Africa Games
Silver	2007 Algiers	Welterweight

Bastir Samir (b. ) is a Ghanaian boxer best known to win silver at welterweight at the 2007 AllAfrican Games. He qualified for the Olympics 2008 at light-heavyweight.

[edit] Career

The hard-punching Samir who is the brother of bantamweight Issa Samir is the team captain of Ghana's national team Black Bombers. Samir won the so-called "African Championships" in May 2007.

At the All-African Games he KOd Hosam Bakr Abdin but lost the final bout to Rached Merdassi.

He missed the world championships as he couldn't make the weight and had to jump two weightclasses to light-heavyweight to qualify for the Olympics 2008 (Ahmed Saraku is the established middleweight) which he managed to do in the second qualifier.