Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov
Gaydarbek Abdulovich Gaydarbekov 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, from Kazakhstan, in the 2004 Olympic finals. Despite his brilliant amateur pedigree, he never turned professional.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he got the silver medal after losing 15–17 in a closely contested final against Cuba's Jorge Gutiérrez.
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 PTS
- *Defeated A. Mahdi DSQ-2
- *Defeated Borislav Nikolov RSC-2
- *Defeated Jesus Vega PTS
- *Lost to Alexander Jimenez PTS
- 1998 2nd place as a Light Middleweight at the Goodwill Games in New York. Results were:
- *Defeated Mohamed Hikal PTS
- *Defeated Jermain Taylor PTS
- *Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra PTS
- 2001 won the Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia. Results were:
- *Defeated Utkirbek Haydarov RSC-1
- *Defeated Paul Miller PTS
- 2004 won the European Championships in Pula, Croatia. Beat Lukas Wilaschek in the final.
Olympic results
2000 Olympics- Defeated Utkirbek Haydarov 11-10
- Defeated Eromosele Albert 19-9
- Defeated Jeff Lacy TKO 3
- Defeated Zsolt Erdei 24-16
- Lost to Jorge Gutiérrez 15-17
- Defeated Christopher Camat 35-13
- Defeated Sherzod Abdurahmonov 33-19
- Defeated Hassan Ndam Njikam 26-13
- Defeated Suriya Prasathinphimai 24-18
- Defeated Gennady Golovkin 28-18