Aleksandar Khristov () (born 28 July 1964) is a retired

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from

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, who became world champion and represented his native country at the

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. There he won the silver medal in the

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(51 – 54 kg) division. He also won three medals in the European Amateur Boxing Championships, including gold at the 1987 European Amateur Boxing Championships in

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. Khristov was the winning boxer in a disputed bantamweight bout in the 1988 Seoul Olympics when he was given a controversial 4-1 victory over South Korean opponent Jung-Il Byun, who refused to leave the ring for over an hour after Khristov was given the verdict.

Results

1985 European Championships *Defeated Hermann Leber (Austria) 5:0 *Defeated Relu Nistor (Romania) 5:0 *Defeated Jarmo Eskelinen (Finland) 5:0 *Lost to

Ljubiša Simić Ljubiša Simić ( sr-cyr, Љубиша Симић; born 27 February 1963 in Smederevo, SR Serbia, then Yugoslavia) is a former boxer from Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921 ...

(Yugoslavia) 1:4 1987 European Championships *Defeated Mike Devanney (Scotland) RSC-3 *Defeated

(Yugoslavia) 5:0 *Defeated René Breitbarth (East Germany) 5:0 *Defeated Yuriy Alexandrov (Soviet Union) 5:0 1988 Summer Olympics *Round of 64: Defeated Peter Anok (Sudan) by decision,4-1 *Round of 32: Defeated Jung-Il Byun (South Korea) by decision, 4-1 *Round of 16: Defeated Jimmy Majanya (Sweden) by decision, 5-0 *Quarterfinal Defeated Alexander Artemev (Soviet Union) by decision, 3-2 *Semifinal: Defeated Jorge Eliecer Julio (Colombia) by decision, 3-2 *Final: Lost to Kennedy McKinney (United States) by decision, 0-5 (was awarded silver medal) 1996 Summer Olympics *Lost to Carlos Barreto (Venezuela) 3-9

References

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