Alexander Povernov (born 17 February 1978) is a German former

amateur boxer Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practiced at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations. Amateur boxing bouts are short in duration, comprising three rounds of three ...

who won a heavyweight bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships.

Career

The hard punching Povernov could win the German Championships at heavyweights with 201 lb/91 kg limit in 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2006. One of his main opponents was Stefan Köber, brother of

Sebastian Köber Sebastian Köber (born 28 May 1979) is a German boxer, who won the Heavyweight bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Three years later, at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, he once again finished ...

, who beat him on points in 2003 but whom he KOd 2004. At the 2004 European Championships he lost in the first round against

Kubrat Pulev Kubrat Venkov Pulev ( bg, Кубрат Венков Пулев; born 4 May 1981) is a Bulgarian professional boxer. He has challenged twice for the unified heavyweight title in 2014 and 2020. At regional level, he has held multiple heavyweight ...

. At the 2005 World Championships he lost his semi final to eventual winner Aleksandr Alekseyev and won bronze. At the 2006 European Championships he beat

Clemente Russo Clemente Russo (born 27 July 1982) is an Italian amateur boxer, best known for winning gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight (201 lbs limit). He currently boxes for the Italia Thunder team in the Worl ...

30:21 but lost to Roman Romanchuk and again won bronze. At the 2007 World Championships he beat Polish Krzysztof Zimnoch 18:10 but exited early against Italian surprise winner Clemente Russo 5:17. He failed to qualify for the 2008 Olympics.

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Amateur boxing record
at BoxRec Heavyweight boxers 1978 births Living people German people of Russian descent Place of birth missing (living people) German male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists {{Germany-boxing-bio-stub