Hosam Bakr Abdin

Hosam Bakr Abdin medal table
Boxing
Egypt
World championships
bronze	2015	medium weight
African Championships
silver	2017	medium weight
gold	2015	medium weight
Africa Games
bronze	2007	Welterweight
Pan-Arab Games
gold	2007	Welterweight
silver	2011	Welterweight
Mediterranean Games
bronze	2009	Welterweight
silver	2013	medium weight
Games of the Francophonie
bronze	2009	Welterweight
Arab championships
bronze	2007	Welterweight
gold	2009	Welterweight
Military World Championships
bronze	2008	Welterweight
Arab military championship
silver	2007	medium weight

Hosam Bakr Abdin Hussein (* 26. October 1985 in Port Said ) is an Egyptian boxer in the middleweight division . He was a participant in the 2008 Olympic Games and also qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games .

He started boxing in 1998, is 1.83 m tall and left-handed .

Continental successes

From 2007 Hosam Abdin won numerous medals at intercontinental championships in the African and Arab countries. His greatest successes are the gold medals at the 2007 Pan-Arab Games , the 2008 African Olympic Qualification, the 2009 Arab Championships and the 2015 African Championships.

He also won silver medals at the 2007 and 2017 African Championships, the 2007 Arab Military Championships, the 2011 Pan-Arab Games and the 2013 Mediterranean Games . He won bronze medals at the 2007 Arab Championships, the 2007 African Games and the 2009 Mediterranean Games.

World Championships and Olympic Games

In 2007 he retired at the World Championships in Chicago in the second preliminary round against the Russian and reigning European champion Andrei Balanow . In 2008 he won a bronze medal at the Military World Championships in Baku after an injury-related exit in the semifinals .

After winning the African qualification, he started at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . There he reached the quarter-finals with a points win against the reigning vice world champion Non Boonjumnong from Thailand. In the fight for a place in the medal ranks, he lost to the Cuban Carlos Banteur .

At the 2009 World Championships in Milan, he lost in the second preliminary round to the later gold medalist Jack Culcay-Keth from Germany. He lost to another German at the 2013 World Championships in Almaty when he was eliminated in the round of 16 against Stefan Härtel .

At the 2015 World Championships in Doha , he became the first Egyptian boxer in ten years to reach a World Cup semi-finals. Among other things, he managed to win against Indian Vikas Krishan in the quarterfinals . In the fight for the final, however, he was eliminated from the Cuban Arlen López and won a bronze medal. With a subsequent victory against the second bronze medalist Michael O'Reilly from Ireland, he also qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . Abdin was previously a participant in the APB series of the amateur boxing association, to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games. There he played five fights, of which he won one.

At the 2016 Olympic Games he defeated Merven Clair from Mauritius in the preliminary round and Wilfried Ntsengue from Cameroon in the round of 16 . In the quarterfinals he was eliminated against the Mexican Misael Rodríguez .

At the 2017 World Championships in Hamburg, he lost to Troy Isley in the round of 16 .

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Sports Reference Profile