Yevheniy Shestakov ( uk, Євген Шестаков; born 17 September 1976) is a retired male

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from

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. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in

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, where he was stopped in the first round of the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg) by

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's eventual silver medalist

Serafim Todorov Serafim Simeonov Todorov ( bg, Серафим Симеонов Тодоров; born 6 July 1969) is a former Bulgarian Olympic Games, Olympic amateur boxer. He won three consecutive gold medals at both the World Amateur Boxing Championships, Worl ...

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