Driss Moussaid

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Driss Moussaid (born March 29, 1988) is a boxer from Morocco [1] who won Bronze at the World Junior Championships 2006 and qualified for the Olympics 2008 at junior welter.

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He won a Bronze in 2006 at the world Junior championship in his native country when he lost the semi to eventual Hungarian winner Balazs Bacskai. At the Olympic qualifier he edged out All Africa champ Hastings Bwalya and also beat Hamza Hassini. Moussaid beat Todd Kidd of Australia in the Men's Light Welter (64 kg) on the second day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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References

  1. "Driss Moussaid Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.