Tahar Tamsamani
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| Bronze | 2000 Sydney | Featherweight | |
Tahar Tamsamani (born September 10, 1980 in Marrakech) is a boxer from Morocco, who participated in two Olympic tournaments and has qualified for a third one.
[edit] Career
In 2000, when Sydney hosted the Summer Olympics, Tamsamani won the bronze medal in the Men's Featherweight (57 kg) division, after falling in the semi finals to Kazakhstan's Bekzat Sattarkhanov.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics where he also started for his native North African country he was defeated in the first round of the Lightweight (60 kg) division by Uganda's Sam Rukundo.
At the Olympic qualifier he lost to Hamza Kramou but won the third place bout and therefore qualified for his third Olympics.
[edit] Olympic Results
2000
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Park Heung-min (South Korea) 21-14
- Defeated Israel Héctor Perez (Argentina) 21-18
- Lost to Bekzat Sattarkhanov (Kazakhstan) 10-22
2004
- Lost to Sam Rukundo (Uganda) 22-30
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Categories: 1980 births | People from Marrakech | Moroccan boxers | Olympic boxers of Morocco | Living people | Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics | Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics | Olympic bronze medalists for Morocco | Featherweights | Moroccan sportspeople stubs | African boxing biography stubs
