Benamar Meskine

Benamar Meskine
Personal information
Full name Benamar Meskine
Nationality  Algeria
Born June 6, 1973
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport Boxing
Rated at Welterweight

Benamar Meskine (born June 6, 1973) is a boxer from Algeria.

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There he was stopped in the second round of the welterweight ( 69 kg) division by U.S.'s Vanes Martirosyan.

Meskine qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event he defeated home fighter Ait Hammi Miloud. Meskine won the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.

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