Dimitar Panayotov Shtilianov or Shtilyanov ( bg, Димитър Панайотов Щилянов; born 17 July 1976) is

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from

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. He won a bronze medal at the

1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Houston, United States from August 15 to August 29. The tenth edition of this competition, a year before the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, was organised by the world governing ...

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. Two years later, at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships, he won the silver medal in the Light Welterweight (– 63,5 kg) and won the gold medal at the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships. Shtilianov represented for Bulgaria at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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.Olympic results
In February of that year he won the title at the

2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships The men's 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Pula, Croatia, from February 19 to February 29. The 35th edition of thi bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. A total number ...

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Olympic results

*Defeated

Selçuk Aydın Selçuk Aydın (born 4 September 1983) is a Turkish professional boxer. He held the European welterweight title from 2009 to 2010, the WBC Silver welterweight title from 2010 to 2012, and has challenged once for the WBC interim welterweight ti ...

(Turkey) 20-11 *Lost to Amir Khan (Great Britain) 21-37

References

1976 births Living people Olympic boxers of Bulgaria Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Sliven Bulgarian male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Light-welterweight boxers Lightweight boxers {{Bulgaria-boxing-bio-stub