Gaydarbek Abdulovich Gaydarbekov (russian: Гайдарбек Абдулович Гайдарбеков) (born October 6, 1976 in
Kaspiysk
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,
USSR
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) is a Russian
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Pula, Croatia
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. 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.
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
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Career
Hikal ...
(Egypt) PTS (8-1)
**Defeated
Jermain Taylor
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(USA) PTS (13-9)
**Lost to
Juan Hernández Sierra
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**Defeated Paul Miller (Australia) PTS (9-5)
*2004 won the European Championships in Pula, Croatia. Beat Lukas Wilaschek (Germany) in the final.
Jeff Lacy
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(USA) TKO 3
*Defeated
Zsolt Erdei
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