Yevheniy Shestakov ( uk, Євген Шестаков; born 17 September 1976) is a retired male boxer from

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. He represented his native country at the

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, where he was stopped in the first round of the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg) by

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's eventual silver medalist Serafim Todorov.

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