Omar Ahmed
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Full name | Omar Ahmed Abdelkader | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1979-12-29) 29 December 1979 (age 44) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Omar Ahmed Abdelkader (born 29 December 1979) is an amateur boxer from Kenya, who is also known as Omar Ahmed, Ahmed Abdelkader, or Ahmed Rajab Omari. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's heavyweight division (– 91 kg) at the 1995 All-Africa Games in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Ahmed represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, being the youngest member (16 years, 205 days) of the Kenyan Olympic Team. There he was defeated in the second round by David Defiagbon from Canada. Omar also won a gold medal in the Men's Heavyweight Division at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada.[1][2]
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External links
- Ahmed Omar at Olympics.com
- Omaar Ahmed at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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- 1965 – 2007: over 81 kg
- 1987 – 2019: up to 91 kg
- 1965: Talaat el-Dahsan (EGY)
- 1973: Fatai Ayinla (NGR)
- 1978: Joseph Mensah (GHA)
- 1987: Fred Kaddu (UGA)
- 1991: David Izonritei (NGR)
- 1995: Omar Ahmed (KEN)
- 1999: Mohamed Azzaoui (ALG)
- 2003: Emmanuel Izonritei (NGR)
- 2007: Mourad Sahraoui (TUN)
- 2011: Chouaib Bouloudinat (ALG)
- 2015: Kennedy St-Pierre (MRI)
- 2019: Abdelhafid Benchabla (ALG)
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