Aleksandr Lebziak

Aleksandr Borisovich Lebziak is a Russian boxer, a three-time Olympian who won the Gold medal in the men's Light Heavyweight category at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He beat Rudolf Kraj in the final.
Lebziak also won the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 1997. At the 1991 World Amateur Championships he won a silver medal in the Middleweight category. He also triumphed at the 2000 European [Amateur Boxing Championships] in Tampere, Finland.

Biography

Aleksandr Lebziak was born on April 15, 1969, in Donetsk, Ukraine. In 1999 he graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture. In 1980 he started boxing. He has been training at CSKA since 1995.

Highlights

1987 Junior World Champion at Light Middleweight
1990 Middleweight Bronze Medalist at Goodwill Games in Seattle, United States. Results were:
*Defeated Ray Downey points
*Lost to Torsten Schmitz points
1991 Lost to Sven Ottke as a Middleweight at European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden
1991 2nd place at Middleweight at World Championships in Sydney, Australia. Results were:
*Defeated Robert Buda TKO 2
*Defeated Sven Ottke points
*Defeated Ramon Garbey points
*Lost to Tommaso Russo points
Represented the Unified Team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics as a Middleweight. Results were:
*Defeated Justann Crawford RSC 3
*Lost to Chris Byrd 7–16
1993 Lost to Sven Ottke as a Middleweight at World Championships in Tampere, Finland.
1993 2nd place at Middleweight in European Championships in Bursa, Turkey. Results were:
*Defeated Mkhitar Vanesian points
*Defeated Akin Kuloglu points
*Lost to Dirk Eigenbrodt points
1994 Bronze Medalist at Middleweight at Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia. Results were:
*Defeated Vitaly Kopitko points
*Lost to Ariel Hernandez points
1996 3rd place in European Championships at Middleweight, held in Vejle, Denmark. Results were:
*Defeated Vitaly Kopitko points
*Defeated Raffaele Bergamasco points
*Defeated Akaki Kakauridze points
*Lost to Zsolt Erdei points
1996 Represented Russia at 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, as a Middleweight. Results were:
*Defeated Rowan Donaldson 20–4
*Defeated Justann Crawford RSC 3
*Lost to Ariel Hernandez 8–15
1997 World Champion at Light Heavyweight in competition held in Budapest, Hungary. Results were:
*Defeated Igor Dzagouev forfeit
*Defeated Tomasz Borowski points
*Defeated Stephen Kirk KO 2
*Defeated Frederic Serrat points
1998 European Champion at Light Heavyweight in competition held in Minsk, Belarus. Results were:
*Defeated Gyorgy Hidvegi TKO 3
*Defeated Thorsten Bengtson points
*Defeated Tomasz Adamek points
*Defeated Courtney Fry TKO 1
2000 European Champion at Light Heavyweight in competition held in Tampere, Finland. Results were:
*Defeated Yildirim Tarhan points
*Defeated Milorad Gajovic points
*Defeated Claudio Rasco points
2000 Olympic Gold Medalist at Light Heavyweight in competition held in Sydney, Australia. Results were:
*Defeated El Hadji Djibril RSC 3
*Defeated Danny Green RSC 4
*Defeated John Dovi 13–11
*Defeated Sergey Mihaylov RSC 1
*Defeated Rudolf Kraj 20–6

Pro career

Lebziak turned pro in 2001, fighting only one fight and retiring with a record of 1–0–0.

Awards and honours

1995 – Order of Honour
1997 – Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
1999 – Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree
2001 – Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", IV degree
2009 – Order of Mirotvorets
2013 – Honoured Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation