Utkirbek Haydarov (Уткирбек Хайдаров; born January 25, 1974, in Andijon) is an

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who competed in the light heavyweight (81 kg) at the

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and won the bronze medal.

Career

The aggressive southpaw won the middleweight world title six years earlier in

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but lost his first match at the Olympics 2000 and moved up in weight. He qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in first place in the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in

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. In the final he defeated Turkmenistan's Shokhrat Kurbanov. At light heavyweight he also won the bronze medal at the

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after having

Olympic results

2000 (as a middleweight) *Lost to

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(Russia) 10–11 2004 (as a Light heavyweight) *Defeated

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(Nigeria) 21–11 *Defeated Abdelhani Kensi (Algeria) 31–19 *Defeated

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(Turkey) 16–11 *Lost to

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(United States) 15–17

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