Billal Bennama: French Olympic Boxing Silver Medalist
French boxer Billal Bennama competed at both the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In Paris, he advanced to the men’s 51 kg final and finished with the silver medal.
Billal Bennama’s path to Paris silver
Bennama was born in Albi, France, on 14 June 1998. His first Olympic appearance came at Tokyo 2020, where he competed in the flyweight division and finished in the round of 16. Three years after the Tokyo competition, he returned to the Olympic ring on home soil.
His Paris campaign included victories over American Roscoe Hill, Cuba’s Alejandro Claro and the Dominican Republic’s Yunior Alcántara Reyes. The quarter-final win over Claro guaranteed a medal, while the semi-final victory over Alcántara Reyes sent him into the championship bout.
A second major final against Dusmatov
In the final on 8 August 2024, Bennama faced Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov. The two had already met for the 2023 world championship, when Dusmatov won. Bennama completed all three rounds of their Olympic rematch at Roland-Garros but again finished as runner-up.
The French Olympic team’s account also notes Bennama’s gold medal at the 2023 European Games. His Paris silver therefore followed another major international success and marked an improvement on his first Olympic campaign.
The embedded video shows his 2023 World Championships semi-final against India’s Deepak Bhoria, rather than a Paris Olympic contest. Keeping those events separate helps trace the sequence from world-level competition to European Games gold and then an Olympic final in France.
Olympedia documents both Olympic appearances. USA Boxing’s Paris results record Bennama’s victory over American Roscoe Hill in the tournament. Sources: French Olympic team’s final report; [1] [2]
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