Oleg Elekpayevich Saitov (russian: Оле́г Элекпа́евич Саи́тов; (born May 26, 1974 in

Novokuybyshevsk Novokuybyshevsk (russian: Новоку́йбышевск) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern bank of the Volga River, away from it. Population: History During the Russian Civil War, the area where the city now stands was ...

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to a

Volga Tatar The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars ( tt-Cyrl, татарлар, tatarlar) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. Volga Tatars are Russia's second-largest ethnicity after t ...

father and ethnic

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mother) is a Russian former

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. He won the

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...

at the

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and

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in the

welterweight Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the ...

division, and bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. Saitov was the winner of the

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for Outstanding Boxer at the 2000

Games. In 2004, 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

1996 Olympic Results *Round of 32:Defeated Cahit Sume of Turkey - PTS (11-1) *Round of 16:Defeated Ho-Jo Bae of South Korea -PTS (9-5) *Quarterfinal:Defeated

Kamel Chater Kamel Chater (born 7 April 1972) is a welterweight boxer from Tunisia, who twice won the gold medal at the All-Africa Games The African Games, formally known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport even ...

of Tunisia - PTS (9-3) *Semifinal:Defeated Daniel Santos of Puerto Rico - PTS (13-11) *Final:Defeated

Juan Hernandez Sierra ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

of Cuba - PTS (14-9) 2000 Olympic Results *Round of 16:Defeated Francisco Calderon of Colombia - PTS (15-1) *Quarterfinal:Defeated Ruslan Khairov of Azerbaijan - PTS (10-10; 55-47) *Semifinal:Defeated

Dorel Simion Dorel Simion (born February 13, 1977 in București) is a Romanian boxer. Simion won the Welterweight bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He also won gold at the 1997 World Championships and 1998 European Championships. Personal He ...

of Romania - PTS (19-10) *Final:Defeated Serhiy Dotsenko of Ukraine- PTS (24-16) 2004 Olympic Results *Round of 32:Defeated Ait Hammi Miloud of Morocco - PTS (30-15) *Round of 16:Defeated

Mohamed Hikal Mohamed Hikal (born January 10, 1979) is an Egyptian boxer. He won the bronze medal in the men's middleweight division (75 kg) at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He competed in four Olympic Games from 2000-2012. Career Hikal ...

of Egypt - PTS (18-17) *Quarterfinal:Defeated Sherzod Husanov of Uzbekistan - PTS (22-14) *Semifinal:Lost to

Bakhtiyar Artayev Bakhtiyar Garifollauly Artayev ( kk, Бақтияр Ғарифоллаұлы Артаев, ''Baqtiiar Ğarifollaūly Artaev''; born 14 March 1983) is a Kazakh amateur boxer who won the gold medal for Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He w ...

of Kazakhstan - PTS (18-20)

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* * 1974 births Living people People from Novokuybyshevsk Olympic boxers for Russia Olympic gold medalists for Russia Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in boxing Russian male boxers Tatar people of Russia AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Welterweight boxers Sportspeople from Samara Oblast {{Russia-boxing-bio-stub