Pál Bedák (born September 8, 1985 in

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) is a boxer from

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best known for winning the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships. His elder brother Zsolt Bedák is a

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boxer. At his international debut Bedák won the European Cadet Championships in 2002. As a junior, he won the European Junior Championships (2003) and the Junior World Championships (2004), where he beat future world champion Sergey Vodopyanov in the final. Bedák won the bronze medal at the 2004 European Championships in

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. He participated in the

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for his native European country. There he was defeated in the first round of the light flyweight division by Azerbaijan's Jeyhun Abiyev. He later won the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships losing to Chinese Zou Shiming. At the 2007 World Championships he made an early exit against European champion David Ayrapetyan, at the

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he was edged out in his first bout 7:8 by

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Professional career

He turned pro in 2008 and signed a contract to fight for Hamburg-based Universum Box-Promotion. He trains together with two fellow-Hungarian world champions Zsolt Erdei and Károly Balzsay.

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1985 births Living people Flyweight boxers Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Hungary Boxers from Budapest Hungarian male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen {{hungary-boxing-bio-stub