Abdelkader Chadi (born 12 December 1986) is an Algerian boxer who won the All-African title 2007 at featherweight and 2015 at junior welter.[1] He also qualified for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.[2]

Abdelkader Chadi
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Algeria
African Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Casablanca Light welterweight
All-Africa Games
Gold medal – first place 2007 Algiers Featherweight
Gold medal – first place 2015 Brazzaville Light Welterweight

Career edit

Chadi beat Roberto Adjaho in the semis and Alaa Shili in the final of the Featherweight competition at the 2007 All-Africa Games. In 2008 he qualified for the Beijing Olympics by beating Shili again. He skipped the final against Mahdi Ouatine. He had weight problems and competed at lightweight in the months before the Olympics.[2]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he beat Sailom Adi in the last 16, before losing to Yakup Kılıç in the last 8.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed at lightweight,[3] losing to Fatih Keleş in the first round.

In the 2016 Summer Olympics he lost to Joedison Teixeira of Brazil in the first round of the light welterweight competition.

References edit

  1. ^ "African Games Results 2015". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Archived from the original on 11 October 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. ^ a b "ABDELKADER CHADI - 64 KG". AIBA.org. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Abdelkader Chadi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.

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