Muideen Ganiyu
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Muideen Ganiyu (born 5 May 1987) is a boxer from Nigeria born in Ibadan the Oyo State capital known by many as the king of boxing. He won a silver medal at the 8th all African games in 2003 at Abuja, Nigeria. Also the same year Won gold medal at the first Afro-Asian games in Hyderabad, India.
Career
He won bronze medal in the 2004 pre-olympic championships in Havana Cuba.
He participated in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics where he made it to the quarterfinals and was ranked number 5. In 2007, he won the bronze medal at the 9th all African Games in Algiers, Algeria.
In 2007 he was selected to represent Nigeria for world boxing championships in Chicago, United States.
He was the captain of the Nigeria boxing team at the 2010 commonwealth games in Delhi, India.
He also participated in 2011 at the 10th all African games in Maputo, Mozambique.
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- Featherweight boxers
- Olympic boxers for Nigeria
- Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Nigerian male boxers
- African Games silver medalists for Nigeria
- African Games silver medalists in boxing
- Boxers at the 2003 All-Africa Games
- 20th-century Nigerian people
- 21st-century Nigerian sportsmen