title: Tahar Tamsamani
text: Tahar Tamsamani (born 10 September 1980) is a retired Moroccan boxer. He competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 2000.
  
  In 2000 he won a bronze medal in the featherweight (57 kg) division, after falling in the semifinals to Kazakhstan's Bekzat Sattarkhanov.
  
  At the 2004 Summer Olympics he was defeated in the first bout of the lightweight (60 kg) division by Uganda's Sam Rukundo. He 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 Tunisia's Taoufik Chouba.
  
  At the 2008 Olympic qualifier he lost to Hamza Kramou but won the third-place bout and therefore qualified for his third Olympics. In Beijing he lost to Domenico Valentino in the first bout.
  
  References
  
  1980 births
  Sportspeople from Marrakesh
  Olympic boxers for Morocco
  Living people
  Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  Olympic bronze medalists for Morocco
  Featherweight boxers
  Lightweight boxers
  Olympic medalists in boxing
  Moroccan male boxers
  Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  21st-century Moroccan people
  20th-century Moroccan people