Oleksandr Khyzhniak
Appearance
Oleksandr Khyzhniak Олександр Хижняк | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Poltava, Ukraine | 3 August 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stance | Orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Khyzhniak (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Хижняк; born 3 August 1995) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer. He earned a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the middleweight event.[1] At the 2024 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the same event.[2] He comes from a family of boxers, with his second cousin being Ukrainian-Australian amateur boxer Anatoliy “Nat” Oliynyk.
References
[edit]- ^ "Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Khyzhniak secures at least silver at 2024 Olympics". Ukrainska Pravda. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Ukraine's Oleksandr Khyzhniak wins boxing gold at Paris Olympics". ESPN. Paris. Associated Press. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Oleksandr Khyzhniak at AIBA.org (archived)
Categories:
- 1995 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Poltava
- Ukrainian male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- European Games gold medalists for Ukraine
- European Games bronze medalists for Ukraine
- European Games medalists in boxing
- Boxers at the 2015 European Games
- Boxers at the 2019 European Games
- Boxers at the 2023 European Games
- Middleweight boxers
- Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Olympic boxers for Ukraine
- 21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen
- Boxers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine
- Ukrainian boxing biography stubs