Ramadan Yasser

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Medal record
Competitor for Egypt
Men's Boxing
All-Africa Games
Gold	1999 Johannesburg	Middleweight
Gold	2003 Abuja	Middleweight
Gold	2007 Algiers	Light heavyweight

Ramadan Yasser Abdelghaffar (born July 19, 1980) is a boxer from Egypt.

[edit] Career

Yasser won the gold medal at middleweight in 1999 at the 1999 All-Africa Games and went to the Olympics 2000 where he lost his first match 7:8 to a Korean.

2003 he repeated his win at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.

He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There he was beaten in the quarterfinals of the Middleweight (75 kg) division by Kazakhstan's world champ and eventual runner-up Gennadiy Golovkin.

[edit] Light Heavyweight

In 2007 he won the All Africa Games as a light heavyweight.

Yasser reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Chicago, fighting in the Light Heavyweight (81 kg) division. After having a bye in the first round, Yasser then defeated Jack Badou of Sweden (PTS 18:9) in the Preliminaries, and PanAm champion Eleider Alvarez of Colombia (KO R4 1:10) in the Round of 16, both of whom also had a bye in the first round before losing to Daugirdas Semiotas on points 9:18.