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Ait Hammi Miloud (born July 8, 1978 in Rabat, Morocco) is a Moroccan Olympic boxer. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. [1]
Hammi Miloud qualified for the Athens Games by winning the silver medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event he lost to the Algerian fighter Benamar Meskine.
In 2004, he shared the bronze medal at the 48th World Military Boxing Championship in the 69 kg. weight class, behind gold medal winner Boyd Melson of the US, and silver medal winner Elshod Rasulov of Uzbekistan, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. [2] [3]
He was a member of the team that competed for Africa at the 2005 Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia.
Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each. Five judges scored the fighters in real time and the boxer with the most points at the end was the winner.
Roland Mark Schoeman OIS is a South African American swimmer and was a member of the South African swimming team at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. In May 2022, he officially became United States citizen.
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