Samir Brahimi is an Algerian boxer born on 17 May 1990 in Algiers. His amateur career was marked by a bronze medal at the African Championships of Vacoas in 2009 and another in Yaounde in 2011, and a silver medal at the All Africa Games in Maputo in 2011, flyweight category. At the 2012 Olympics he beat Australian Jackson Woods but lost to Russian Misha Aloyan.