Aharon Jacobashvili (also Aaron and Jakobashvili; אהרון יעקבשווילי; born September 18, 1964) is an Israeli former Olympic boxer.
He was born in Georgia, and is Jewish.
Boxing career
He competed for
Israel at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Israeli athletes competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Results by event Boxing
Gymnastics
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in
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, South Korea, at the age of 23.
He boxed in the
Men's Middleweight competition, losing on points to
West German
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Sven Ottke
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(who later was the
IBF
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super-middleweight world champion from 1998 to 2004, and the
WBA super-middleweight world champion from 2003 to 2004), and came in tied for 32nd.
When he boxed in the Olympics he was tall, and weighed .
References
1964 births
Israeli Jews
Living people
Jewish boxers
Israeli male boxers
Olympic boxers for Israel
Jews from Georgia (country)
Soviet emigrants to Israel
Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
People from Nof HaGalil
Middleweight boxers
Israeli people of Georgian-Jewish descent
20th-century Israeli sportspeople
20th-century Jews from Georgia (country)
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