Khedafi Djelkhir

Khédafi Djelkhir, or sometimes Khesafi Djelkhir, (born 26 October 1983 in Besançon) is a French featherweight amateur boxer of Algerian origin. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal at the 2004 European Championships.[1]

Khédafi Djelkhir
Personal information
Full nameKhédafi Djelkhir
Nationality France
Born (1983-10-26) October 26, 1983
Besançon, Doubs
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classFeatherweight
ClubFuturis Boxing Club Besançon

Career

Djelkhir won a silver medal at featherweight at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia losing to Vitali Tajbert.

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. There, he was defeated in the second round of the featherweight (57 kg) division again by Germany's eventual bronze medalist Vitali Tajbert.

Djelkhir qualified for the Olympics 2008 by beating English boxer Stephen Smith in the semi final of a European qualifying tournament. At the Olympics he reached the finals where he lost to Ukrainian southpaw Vasyl Lomachenko.

Olympic Games

2004 (as a featherweight)

2008 (as a featherweight)

World Championships

2005 (as a featherweight)

2007 (as a featherweight)

  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Khedafi Djelkhir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-06-04.
  • Yahoo! Sports
  • Olympic qualifier
  • AIBA results for Olympic qualification.

References


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