Andrey Vladimirovich Balanov (russian: Андрей Владимирович Баланов) (born April 27, 1976 in Podolsk) is a former Russian boxer best known for winning the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships at welterweight, being part of the

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n 2005 team at the Boxing World Cup and competing at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Career

In 2005 he was part of the

n team that won the 2005 Boxing World Cup. At the

2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships The men's 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Mianyang, China, from November 13 to November 20. The competition was organised by the world's governing body for amateur boxing AIBA. Medal winners Medal table External lin ...

he exited early against eventual Cuban winner Erislandi Lara. At the Euros 2006 he beat Oleksandr Stretskyy from

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in the semifinals and Bulgarian

Spas Genov Spas Genov ( bg, Спас Генов, born 24 May 1981) is a Bulgarian boxer best known to win Silver at welterweight at the Euro 2006. He beat Kakhaber Zhvania but lost the final to Andrey Balanov Andrey Vladimirovich Balanov (russian ...

in the final 30:12. At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships he again beat Olexandr Stretskiy but was upset by Thai Non Boonjumnong. At the first Olympic qualifier 2008 he was upset by English teenager Billy Joe Saunders, at the second he lost to Frenchman Jaoid Chiguer but barely qualified by defeating

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. In Beijing he lost in his second bout to Demetrius Andrade.

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