Andrzej Rżany (born 26 September 1973) is a
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from
Poland
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.
He participated in the
2004 Summer Olympics
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where he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the
Flyweight (51 kg) division by Azerbaijan's eventual bronze medalist
Fuad Aslanov.
Rżany won the bronze medal in the same division six months earlier, at the
2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in
Pula
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. In addition he won the bronze medal at the
1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and reached the quarterfinals at the 2000 Olympics.
Olympic results
1992 (as a light Flyweight)
*Lost to
Rajendra Prasad
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(India) 6–12
2000 (as a flyweight)
*Defeated
Celestin Augustin (Madagascar) 15–13
*Defeated
Arlan Lerio
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He was part of the national training pool of the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines as early as 1997 an ...
(Philippines)
*Lost to
Wladimir Sidorenko (Ukraine) RSC 3
2004 (as a flyweight)
*Defeated
Bonyx Yusak Saweho
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The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as ...
(Indonesia) 25–19
*Defeated
Hicham Mesbahi (Morocco) 33–20
*Lost to
Fuad Aslanov (Azerbaijan) 21–22
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1973 births
Living people
Flyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Poland
Sportspeople from Mielec
Martial artists from Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Polish male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
20th-century Polish sportsmen
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