Victor Ramos (boxer)

Victor Ramos (born April 14, 1970 in Bobonaro , Portuguese Timor ) is a boxer from East Timor . He took part in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , making him one of the first East Timorese athletes to take part in the country's Olympic Games.

Sporty

Ramos is a member of the sports club Sport Dili e Benfica . At the 1997 Southeast Asian Games in Jakarta , Ramos won the bronze medal. At that time he started for the occupying power Indonesia .

At the Olympic Games in Sydney Ramos reached 17th place in the lightweight . He lost in the first fight against Raymond Narh from Ghana . At that time, East Timor's athletes were listed as independent Olympic athletes , as the country was still under the administration of the United Nations after the Indonesian occupation . Ramos led the team into the stadium with the Olympic flag at the opening ceremony .

Private

During Operation Donner in 1999, Ramos and his parents and siblings had to flee the violence of pro-Indonesian militias from Dili into the hills. There the refugees lived in huts and ate wild fruits.

On September 11th, he married his girlfriend Domingues in the refugee camp , with whom he already had four children. Ramos had been separated from them while on the run. Upon his return, Ramos found that his boxing club had been looted and the equipment destroyed. He improvised and filled hoses with sand to use as punching bags .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Victor Ramos in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Sports Reference: Olympic Athletes ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 13, 2013
3. ↑ ^{a b c} New York Times: OLYMPICS; East Timor Athletes Enjoy Independence . Retrieved September 13, 2013
4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: A Moment in the Spotlight, September 18, 2000 , accessed on September 14, 2013