Khédafi Djelkhir
Personal information
Full nameKhédafi Djelkhir
NationalityFrench
Born (1983-10-26) October 26, 1983
Besançon, Doubs
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classFeatherweight
ClubFuturis Boxing Club Besançon
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Featherweight
European Amateur Championships
Silver medal – second place 2004 Pula Featherweight
EU Amateur Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Dublin Featherweight
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Madrid Featherweight

Khédafi Djelkhir, or sometimes Khesafi Djelkhir, (born 26 October 1983) is a French featherweight amateur boxer of Algerian origin. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal at the 2004 European Championships.[1]

Career

Djelkhir won a silver medal at featherweight at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia losing to Vitali Tajbert.

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. There, he was defeated in the second round of the featherweight (57 kg) division again by Germany's eventual bronze medalist Vitali Tajbert.

Djelkhir qualified for the Olympics 2008 by beating English boxer Stephen Smith in the semi final of a European qualifying tournament.[2] At the Olympics he reached the finals where he lost to Ukrainian southpaw Vasyl Lomachenko.

Olympic Games

2004 (featherweight)

2008 (featherweight)

World Championships

2005 (featherweight)

2007 (featherweight)

References

  1. "Migrations à Besançon - Khedafi Djelkhir : " On peut pas avoir un monde pareil ? "". 2011-07-20. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  2. "European Olympic Qualifications - 1 - Pescara, Italy".


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