country event birth_place weight height olympics birth_date article_title name
east timor men 's lightweight bobonaro leste -rrb- , bobonaro , portuguese timor -lrb- now timor 60kg 1.68 m 2000 14 april 1970 victor ramos -lrb- boxer -rrb-
 victor ramos
victor ramos -lrb- boxer -rrb-

victor ramos -lrb- born 14 april 1970 -rrb- is a retired east timorese boxer .
he was one of the first athletes to represent east timor at the olympic games , when he competed at the men 's lightweight boxing event at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney , though he technically competed as an individual athlete because east timor was newly independent and had not yet been formally recognized by the international olympic committee .
he was also the flag bearer for the independent olympians at the 2000 summer olympics .
ramos was one of the ten east timorese athletes who received training in darwin prior to his participation in the sydney olympic games .
however , he lost in round 1 against ghanaian boxer raymond narh and did not advance any further .
besides competing in the 2000 summer olympics , ramos also competed in the 1997 southeast asian games , where he won a bronze medal representing indonesia .
the sydney olympics followed east timor 's declaration of independence from indonesia in 1999 , and the ensuing violence , and ramos , like many other east timorese , fled into the hills with his parents and siblings to escape from the violence .
