Alisher Rahimov (russian: Алишер Рахимов; born October 23, 1977) is an amateur
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
* Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
*Boxer (dog), a breed of dog
Boxer or boxers may also refer to:
Animal kingdom
* Boxer crab
* Boxer shrimp, a small group of decapod crustaceans
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from
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
. He won the gold medal at the 1999 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in his home nation and competed for the
bantamweight
Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is .
The name for the class is derived from Ba ...
division at the
2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...
in Sydney.
He defeated South Korea's
Cho Seok-Hwan
Jo Seok-Hwan (born October 15, 1979) is a retired South Korean amateur boxer.
He participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics for his native East Asian country. There he was stopped in the first round of the Bantamweight (54 kg) division by Uzbe ...
and Algeria's Hicham Blida in the first two rounds, until he lost to Russia's
Raimkul Malakhbekov
Raimkul Khudoynazarovich Malakhbekov (russian: Раимкуль Худойназарович Малахбеков; born 16 August 1974 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR) is one of highest titled boxers of Russia, who won two Olympic medals in the Men's Bant ...
in the quarterfinal match.
References
External links
WBC Boxing - List of champions
1977 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tashkent
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Uzbekistan
Uzbekistani male boxers
Bantamweight boxers
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