Said Rachidi

At the Arab Championships Rachidi was edged out by Wahid Abderredha of Iraq, and he did not compete at all in the All-African Games, despite qualifying.^[1] He was successful at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago, though, where he reached the quarterfinal to qualify for the Olympics.^[2] He lost to Bakhtiyar Artayev. At the Pan-Arab Games he defeated Abdelhafid Benchebla but was edged out in the final by Mohammed Hikal.^{[citation needed]} At the 2008 Olympics he lost again to Artayev.^[3]