Dimitar Panayotov Shtilianov or Shtilyanov ( bg, Димитър Панайотов Щилянов; born 17 July 1976) is boxer from

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. He won a bronze medal at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas. Two years later, at the

2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from June 3 to June 10. The competition was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing International Boxing Association (AIBA). Medal winne ...

, he won the silver medal in the Light Welterweight (– 63,5 kg) and won the gold medal at the

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. Shtilianov represented for Bulgaria at the 2004 Summer Olympics in

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.Olympic results
In February of that year he won the title at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in

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Olympic results

*Defeated Selçuk Aydın (Turkey) 20-11 *Lost to Amir Khan (Great Britain) 21-37

References

1976 births Living people Olympic boxers of Bulgaria Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Sliven Bulgarian male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Light-welterweight boxers Lightweight boxers {{Bulgaria-boxing-bio-stub