Utkirbek Haydarov (Уткирбек Хайдаров; born January 25, 1974, in

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i boxer who competed in the light heavyweight (81 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.

Career

The aggressive southpaw won the middleweight world title six years earlier in

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but lost his first match at the Olympics 2000 and moved up in weight. He qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in first place in the

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. In the final he defeated Turkmenistan's Shokhrat Kurbanov. At light heavyweight he also won the bronze medal at the

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after having

Olympic results

2000 (as a middleweight) *Lost to Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov (Russia) 10–11 2004 (as a Light heavyweight) *Defeated Isaac Ekpo (Nigeria) 21–11 *Defeated Abdelhani Kensi (Algeria) 31–19 *Defeated Ihsan Yildirim Tarhan (Turkey) 16–11 *Lost to

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(United States) 15–17

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* 1974 births Living people Uzbekistani male boxers Olympic boxers of Uzbekistan Olympic bronze medalists for Uzbekistan Olympic medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in boxing Asian Games gold medalists for Uzbekistan Boxers at the 2002 Asian Games Boxers at the 2006 Asian Games AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists People from Andijan Middleweight boxers {{Uzbekistan-Olympic-medalist-stub