Ahmed Saraku
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Representing  Ghana
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2007 Algiers | Middleweight |
Ahmed Saraku (born 1986) is a Ghanaian amateur boxer who won silver at the Light Heavyweight 81kg at the African Championship Madagascar 2007. At the 2007 All-Africa Games he dropped down to middleweight and won silver. He qualified for the Olympics by winning two fights and won silver early in 2008. He is married to Ghanaian-born Australian lady Sabina Saraku. The couple welcomed their first daughter, Renee Saraku, on 11 November 2019.
Career[edit]
He became national welterweight champion in 2005 and went to the Commonwealth Games 2006 where he lost his first bout 7:13 to Neil Perkins.
At the African Championships he competed at light heavy and won silver.
At the All-Africa Games he dropped down to middleweight and lost the final 8:9 to local hero Nabil Kassel. At the world championships, he lost his first bout to Bosco Draskovic.
He qualified for the Olympics by winning two bouts in a qualifier, one of them against Daniel Shishia.
External links[edit]
- Bio[permanent dead link]
- All Africa games 2007
- Ahmed Saraku at Olympics.com
- Ahmed Saraku at Olympedia
- Ahmed Saraku at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Ahmed Saraku at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Middleweight boxers
- Welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Ghana
- Ghanaian male boxers
- African Games silver medalists for Ghana
- African Games medalists in boxing
- Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Ghana
- Ghanaian boxing biography stubs