Driss Moussaid
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Driss Moussaid is a boxer from Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

 who won Bronze at the World Junior Championships 2006 and qualified for the Olympics 2008 at junior welter.

Career

He won a Bronze in 2006 at the world Junior championship in his native country when he lost the semi to eventual Hungarian winner Balazs Bacskai. At the Olympic qualifier he edged out All Africa champ Hastings Bwalya
Hastings Bwalya
Hastings Bwalya is a Zambian boxer who won the 2007 All-Africa Games at junior welter, and then competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Career:...

 and also beat Hamza Hassini
Hamza Hassini
Hamza Hassini is a Tunisian amateur boxer. He qualified for the 2008 Olympics in the Light Welterweight division.Hassini defeated, among others, Herbert Nkabiti and Abdelrahman Salah. A final loss to fellow qualifier Driss Moussaid was meaningless.At the Olympics, he lost to Iranian Morteza...

. Moussaid beat Todd Kidd
Todd Kidd
Todd Alan Kidd is an Australian amateur boxer best known to qualify for the Olympics 2008 at light welterweight.-Career:...

 of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 in the Men's Light Welter (64kg) on the second day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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