Mourad Sahraoui

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Medal record
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Men's Boxing
All-Africa Games
Gold 2007 Algiers Heavyweight

Mourad Sahraoui (b. ) is an amateur boxer from Tunisia best known to win Gold in the heavyweight division at the All African games 2007.

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Sahraoui won the Africa Championships 2005.

At the world championships 2005 he competed at light heavyweight and beat Yusiel Napoles and two other opponents but was stopped in the quarterfinal by eventual winner Yerdos Dzhanabergenov.

At the Arab Championships 2007 he beat Abdelhafid Benchebla but lost the final to Egyptian nemesis Ramadan Yasser 13:14.

At the All African Games 2007 he fought at heavyweight and beat David Assiene (CMR), Abdelaziz Toulbini (ALG) in the first rounds and then Lateef Kayode (Nga) 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 has qualified for the Olympics.

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