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Full name | Benamar Meskine | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Algeria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | June 6, 1973 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Welterweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Benamar Meskine (born June 6, 1973) is a boxer from Algeria.
He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. He was defeated in the first round of the welterweight division by Bakhtiyar Artayev.
Meskine qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event he defeated home fighter Ait Hammi Miloud. Meskine won the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.
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