Babacar Kamara

Babacar Kamara (* 1982 ) is a former Swedish boxer in the light and heavyweight division .

Career

Babacar Kamara was Swedish light heavyweight champion in 2003, 2010 and 2011, defeating Olympian Kennedy Katende in the finals in 2010 and 2011 and also being named Sweden's Boxer of the Year in 2011. In 2007 he became runner- up after losing in the final against later professional world champion Badou Jack (20:21). In 2005, 2006 and 2012 Kamara also won the Swedish heavyweight championship and in 2018 also super heavyweight.

In 2003, after losing to İhsan Yıldırım Tarhan in the semi-final, he won a bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the EU Championships in Strasbourg and was a participant in the 2004 European Olympic qualification in Baku , where he defeated Kevin Evans from Wales and Kenneth Egan from Ireland. Due to a subsequent premature defeat against Ali Ismailov from Azerbaijan, according to the rules, he was not allowed to compete in his last decisive battle and was therefore eliminated without an Olympic ticket.

He was also a participant of the 2004 European Championships in Pula , 2006 in Plovdiv and 2008 in Liverpool , as well as the World Championships in 2005 in Mianyang , 2007 in Houston and 2009 in Milan . In World Cup matches, he won against Anders Hugger from Denmark, Kenneth Egan from Ireland, Edgar Muñoz from Venezuela, Nasi Hani from Macedonia and Ioannis Militopoulos from Greece, while his defeats against Mourad Sahraoui from Tunisia, József Darmos from Hungary and Artur Beterbijew from Russia. At the European Championships he was eliminated from Artak Malumjan from Armenia, Imre Szellő from Hungary and Daugirdas Šemiotas from Lithuania; His most important victory at a European Championship was that in 2006 against two-time Olympian Bahram Muzaffer from Turkey. At the European Olympic qualification in Athens in 2008 he was again defeated by József Darmos, having previously defeated Denizcan Gokkaya from Turkey.

Babacar Kamara was also used in country fights and international tournaments, where he was able to achieve some significant successes; In 2007 he defeated the world and Olympic champion Oleksandr Ussyk in Istanbul (17:15), and in 2011 in Mariupol the two-time Olympic silver medalist Ädilbek Nijasymbetow (11:10). Other opponents of his career were Tony Jeffries , Dmitri Tschudinow , Mehdi Ghorbani and Elshod Rasulov . In the 2012/13 season he was signed by the British Lionhearts from the World Series of Boxing (WSB), with whom he reached the quarter-finals.

Web links

• Babacar Kamara , British Lionhearts
• amateur-boxing.strefa.pl