Adilbek Sabituly Niyazymbetov (; born 19 May 1989) is an Uzbekistani-born amateur light-heavyweight boxer who competes for

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. He won silver medals at the world championships in

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and

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and at the Summer Olympics in

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and

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Career

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he qualified for the Olympics by winning silver. He beat Jeysson Monroy, Meng Fanlong and

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but lost the final to Cuban

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. At the 2012 Olympics he beat

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from Ecuador, Iranian

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13–10, and Ukrainian

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13:13 on countback before losing the final to Russian favorite

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15:15, again on countback. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he beat

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and

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before losing to

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in the final.

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