Andrey Vladimirovich Balanov (russian: Андрей Владимирович Баланов) (born April 27, 1976 in

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) is a former Russian

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best known for winning the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships at welterweight, being part of the

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n 2005 team at the

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and competing at the

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Career

In 2005 he was part of the

n team that won the 2005

. At the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships he exited early against eventual Cuban winner

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. At the Euros 2006 he beat Oleksandr Stretskyy from

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in the semifinals and Bulgarian Spas Genov in the final 30:12. At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships he again beat Olexandr Stretskiy but was upset by Thai

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. At the first Olympic qualifier 2008 he was upset by English teenager

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, at the second he lost to Frenchman

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but barely qualified by defeating

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. In Beijing he lost in his second bout to

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References

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1976 births Living people Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Russia Russian male boxers People from Podolsk Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast {{Russia-boxing-bio-stub