Ramadan Yasser

Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar is a boxer from Egypt.

Career

Yasser won the gold medal in the men's middleweight division at the 1999 All-Africa Games and went to the Boxing at the [2000 Summer Olympics – Middleweight|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 2004 Summer Olympics – Middleweight|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 World [Amateur Boxing Championships|2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships] in Chicago, fighting in the Light Heavyweight division. After having a bye in the first round, Yasser defeated Jack Badou of Sweden in the Preliminaries, and PanAm champion Eleider Alvarez of Colombia 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.