Faisal Karim
Faisal Karim (born December 21, 1981 ) is a retired Pakistani boxer.
He won the welterweight gold medal at the 2004 South Asian Games. Shortly thereafter, he won the Green Hill tournament and qualified for the Olympic Games. In June it became known that Karim had given a positive doping test , but he was only given a warning. At the Olympic Games in Athens he was eliminated in the first round against the later bronze medalist Ionuț Gheorghe . At the South Asian Games in 2006 he won the gold medal again. But because he tested positive again, he got the title revoked and was banned for life.
Web links
- Faisal Karim in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pakistani boxers rewrite SAF Games history dailytimes.com.pk April 7, 2004 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Green Hill Tournament (olympic qualifier) amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
- ↑ Boxer banned for life n-tv.de November 27, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karim, Faisal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pakistani boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pakistan |