Khedafi Djelkhir

Khédafi Djelkhir
Personal information
Full nameKhédafi Djelkhir
NationalityFrench
Born (1983-10-26) October 26, 1983 (age 42)
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classFeatherweight
ClubFuturis Boxing Club Besançon

Khédafi Djelkhir, or sometimes Khesafi Djelkhir, (born 26 October 1983) is a French featherweight amateur boxer of Algerian origin. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal at the 2004 European Championships.[1]

Career

Djelkhir won a silver medal at featherweight at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia losing to Vitali Tajbert.

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. There, he was defeated in the second round of the featherweight (57 kg) division again by Germany's eventual bronze medalist Vitali Tajbert.

Djelkhir qualified for the 2008 Olympics by beating English boxer Stephen Smith in the semi final of a European qualifying tournament.[2] At the Olympics, he reached the finals where he lost to Ukrainian southpaw Vasyl Lomachenko.

Olympic Games

2004 (featherweight)

2008 (featherweight)

World Championships

2005 (featherweight)

2007 (featherweight)

References