Mehrullah Lassi
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Mehrullah Lassi is a former Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i amateur boxer best known to win a gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games.

Career

Mehrullah who has five brothers and three sisters joined the Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

 Port Trust boxing club in 1995.

He won the Asian Games 2002 in the featherweight division.

Mehrullah Lassi qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament
1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament was held in Guangzhou, PR China from March 18 to March 23, 2004. It was the first chance for amateur boxers from Asia to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics after the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Puerto Princesa,...

 in Guangzhou
Guangzhou
Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, PR China. In the final he defeated China's Liu Yuan
Liu Yuan (boxer)
Liu Yuan is a male amateur boxer from PR China. He qualified to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the bantamweight division where he lost in the first round to Cuba's eventual gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux.Liu qualified for the 2004 Athens Games as a bantamweight by ending up in second...

. At the Olympics he tried his hands a division lower at bantam but lost his first bout against superstar and two-time winner Guillermo Rigondeaux and went back up to featherweight.

In 2005 he went 1-1 against Olympic silver medalist Kim Song-Guk
Kim Song-Guk
Kim Song-Guk is a North Korean boxer who competed in the featherweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.-Career:...

 in international tournaments.

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games he lost the final tio Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith (boxer)
Stephen Smith is a British professional boxer best known for being former British and Commonwealth Featherweight champion, and as an amateur won the featherweight division at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships...

10:20.In his career's last years he used to box in Pakistan's live program "EK MUKA AUR" which means ONE MORE PUNCH in English.
At the South East Asian Games he and compatriot Faisal Karim tested positive for cannabis and were banned for life.

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