Brahimi, Samir

Samir Brahimi was born on May 17, 1990 in the city of Algeria . He trained in Paris at the Paris United boxing club.

The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in the 2007 season, when he joined the main team of the Algerian national team and attended the Pan-Arab Games in Egypt, from where he brought the silver dignity award won in the classification of the first lightest weight category.

In 2009, he won a bronze medal at the African Championship in Mauritius, became the bronze medalist of the Arab Championship in Mauritius, and won the bronze medal at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara .

In 2010, he won a bronze medal at the Golden Gloves international tournament in Belgrade and successfully performed at the home African Cup of Nations.

At the 2011 African Championships in Cameroon, he received a bronze award, reached the finals at the Maputo All-Africa Games , boxed at the World War Games in Rio de Janeiro and at the World Championships in Baku , where he was already stopped by the representative in 1/32 lightweight finals Of Uzbekistan by Jasurbek Latipov . Also, from this time on, he regularly took part in match meetings of the World Boxing Series , representing the Algerian Desert Hawks team ^[1] .

Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London - the Australian Jackson Woods successfully passed in the opening duel of the category up to 52 kg , but lost to the Russian Misha Aloyan in the second match with a score of 9:14 and lost the fight for medals .

After the London Olympics, he continued to actively enter the ring for several more years. So, in 2017 he became the bronze medalist of the Algeria boxing championship in the lightest weight category ^[2] .

• Samir Brahimi - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com