Walid Cherif

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Walid Cherif
Personal information
Full nameWalid Cherif
NationalityFlag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia
Born (1978-03-09) 9 March 1978 (age 47)
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Sport Boxing
Weight class Light Flyweight
Medal record
All-Africa Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2003 Abuja Flyweight
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Almeíra Flyweight
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2001 Tunis Light Flyweight

Walid Cherif (born 9 March 1978) is a boxer from Tunisia, who won the gold medal in 2003 at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.

He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was beaten in the first round of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Georgia's Nikoloz Izoria.

Cherif also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He beat Australian Stephen Sutherland and upset 2005 world champ Lee Ok-Sung before losing 5:7 to Italy's Vincenzo Picardi in the quarterfinal. He was a member of the team that competed for Africa at the 2005 Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia.

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