Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov

Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov
Personal information
Full name	Gaydarbek Abdulayevich Gaydarbekov
Nationality	Russian
Born	October 6, 1976 (age 47); Kaspiysk, Soviet Union
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Middleweight
Club	Dynamo, Kaspiyusk
Medal record
Olympic Games
European Amateur Championships

Gaydarbek Abdulovich Gaydarbekov (Russian: Гайдарбек Абдулович Гайдарбеков) (born October 6, 1976 in Kaspiysk, USSR) is a Russian boxer who has won two Olympic medals in Middleweight including the gold medal at the 2004 games. He qualified for the Athens Olympics by winning the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia. Today he is perhaps best known for defeating future boxing superstar Gennady Golovkin in the 2004 Olympic finals. Despite his brilliant amateur pedigree, he never turned professional.^[1]

Amateur Highlights

Russian Champion 1999, 2001 and 2002
1994 2nd place as a Flyweight at the Junior World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Results were:
- Defeated A. Kopanov (Kazakhstan) PTS (15-2)
- Defeated A. Mahdi (Algeria) DSQ-2
- Defeated Borislav Nikolov (Bulgaria) RSC-2
- Defeated Jesus Vega (USA) PTS (11-8)
- Lost to Alexander Jimenez (Cuba) PTS (3-11)
1998 2nd place as a Light Middleweight at the Goodwill Games in New York. Results were:
- Defeated Mohamed Hikal (Egypt) PTS (8-1)
- Defeated Jermain Taylor (USA) PTS (13-9)
- Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra (Cuba) PTS (5-16)
2001 won the Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia. Results were:
- Defeated Utkirbek Haydarov (Uzbekistan) RSC-1
- Defeated Paul Miller (Australia) PTS (9-5)
2004 won the European Championships in Pula, Croatia. Beat Lukas Wilaschek (Germany) in the final.