Adilbek Sabituly Niyazymbetov ( kz, Әділбек Сәбитұлы Ниязымбетов; born 19 May 1989) is an Uzbekistani-born amateur light-heavyweight boxer who competes for

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. He won silver medals at the world championships in 2011 and

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and at the Summer Olympics in

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and

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Career

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he qualified for the Olympics by winning silver. He beat

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and Elshod Rasulov but lost the final to Cuban

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. At the 2012 Olympics he beat

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from Ecuador, Iranian Ehsan Rouzbahani 13–10, and Ukrainian Oleksandr Gvozdyk 13:13 on countback before losing the final to Russian favorite

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15:15, again on countback. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he beat

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, Teymur Mammadov and

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before losing to

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in the final.

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* * * 1989 births Living people People from Nukus Light-heavyweight boxers Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Kazakhstan Olympic silver medalists for Kazakhstan Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2014 Asian Games Kazakhstani male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games {{Kazakhstan-boxing-bio-stub