Benamar Meskine
Personal information
Full nameBenamar Meskine
Nationality Algeria
Born (1973-06-06) June 6, 1973
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classWelterweight
Medal record
All-Africa Games
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Abuja Welterweight
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 2001 Tunis Light Middleweight
African Amateur Championships
Gold medal – first place 2001 Port Louis Light Middleweight
Gold medal – first place 2003 Yaoundé Welterweight

Benamar Meskine (born June 6, 1973) is a boxer from Algeria.

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. He was defeated in the first round of the welterweight division by Bakhtiyar Artayev.

Meskine qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event he defeated home fighter Ait Hammi Miloud. Meskine won the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.

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