Ramadan Yasser | |
Fullname: | Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar |
Birth Date: | 1980 7, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Gharbîya el-Saqriya, Al-Wadi Al-Jadid |
Height: | 1.850NaN0 |
Weight: | 75kg (165lb) |
Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar (Arabic: ياسر رمضان عبد الغفار; born July 19, 1980, in Gharbîya el-Saqriya, Al-Wadi Al-Jadid) is a boxer from Egypt.
Yasser won the gold medal in the men's middleweight division at the 1999 All-Africa Games and went to the Olympics 2000 where he lost his first match 7:8 to Korea's Im Jung-Bin. In 2003, he repeated his win at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.
Yasser also participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. He was beaten in the quarterfinals of the middleweight ( - 75 kg) division by Kazakhstan's world champion and eventual runner-up Gennady Golovkin.
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 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. He then lost 9:18 to Lithuania's Daugirdas Semiotas.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics he was upset by Algeria's Abdelhafid Benchabla 6:13.