Timofey Skryabin (born November 14, 1967 in

Bălți Bălți (; russian: Бельцы, , uk, Бєльці, , yi, בעלץ ) is a city in Moldova. It is the second largest city in terms of population, area and economic importance, after Chișinău. The city is one of the five Moldovan municipalit ...

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) is a retired boxer from the former

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, who represented his native country at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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. There he won the bronze medal in the

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division (– 51 kg). A year later he captured the silver medal in the

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category (– 54 kg) at the 1989 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Athens, Greece.

1988 Olympic results

*Round of 64: Defeated Zekaria Williams (Cook Islands) by decision, 5-0 *Round of 32: Defeated Joseph Lawlor (Ireland) by decision, 5-0 *Round of 16: Defeated Andy Agosto (Puerto Rico) by decision, 5-0 *Quarterfinal: Defeated Melvin de Leon (Dominican Republic) by decision, 3-2 *Semifinal: Lost to Kwang-Sun Kim (South Korea) by decision, 0-5 (was awarded bronze medal)

References

databaseOlympics.com

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