Adilbek Niyazymbetov

Adilbek Niyazymbetov
Personal information
Born May 19, 1989 (1989-05-19) (age 27)
Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbek SSR
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 12 in)

Adilbek Sabituly Niyazymbetov (Kazakh: Әділбек Сәбитұлы Ниязымбетов; born May 19, 1989)[1] is a Kazakh amateur boxer who won Silver at light heavyweight at the 2011 World Championships (results) and the 2012 Olympics. He is a southpaw.

Career

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he qualified for the Olympics by winning silver. He beat Jeysson Monroy, Meng Fanlong and Elshod Rasulov but lost the final to Cuban Julio César la Cruz.

At the 2012 Olympics (results) he beat Carlos Góngora from Ecuador, Iranian Ehsan Rouzbahani 13-10, Ukrainian Oleksandr Hvozdyk 13:13 countback before losing the final to Russian favorite Egor Mekhontsev 15:15 countback.

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2012-06-23.


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