Redžep Redžepovski (; born 14 December 1962) is a retired

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boxer of ethnic Macedonian Turkish origin, who won silver medal for

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in the flyweight division (< 51 kg) at the

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. In the final he was defeated by Steve McCrory of the

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. During the preliminary rounds of the 1984 Olympics, Redžepovski scored a controversial win over

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, a future World Champion in four weight divisions. Fenech was initially given the decision, but after intervention by the Olympic Boxing Committee and a total recount, the decision was reversed with Redžepovski being awarded the win. Many of the other boxers and those in the press felt that Fenech had been unfairly robbed of a chance to win an Olympic medal and most boxing writers noted how political amateur boxing was, especially at the

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Olympic results

*Defeated Sanguo Teraporn (Thailand) 3–2 *Defeated Pat Clinton (Great Britain) KO 2 *Defeated

(Australia) 4–1 *Defeated Ibrahim Bilali (Kenya) 5–0 *Lost to Steve McCrory (United States) 1–4

External links

databaseOlympics.com

1962 births Living people Sportspeople from Kumanovo Macedonian male boxers Flyweight boxers Olympic boxers for Yugoslavia Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia Olympic medalists in boxing Yugoslav male boxers Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics {{Yugoslavia-Olympic-medalist-stub