Utkirbek Haydarov

Utkirbek Haydarov (Уткирбек Хайдаров; born January 25, 1974, in Andijon) is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the light heavyweight (81 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.

Utkirbek Khaydarov

Personal information
Full name	Уткирбек Хайдаров
Nationality	Uzbekistan
Born	(1974-01-25) January 25, 1974 (age 51) Andijon, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Middleweight, Light heavyweight
Club	Dynamo
Medal record Olympic Games 2004 Athens Light Heavyweight World Amateur Championships 1999 Houston Middleweight 2001 Belfast Middleweight 2005 Mianyang Light heavyweight Asian Games 2002 Busan Middleweight Asian Championships 2002 Seremban Middleweight 2005 Ho Chi Minh City Light heavyweight

Career

The aggressive southpaw won the middleweight world title six years earlier in Houston 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 Karachi, Pakistan. In the final he defeated Turkmenistan's Shokhrat Kurbanov. At light heavyweight he also won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, People's Republic of China after having

Olympic results

2000 (as a middleweight)

• Lost to Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov (Russia) 10–11

2004 (as a Light heavyweight)

• Defeated Isaac Ekpo (Nigeria) 21–11
• Defeated Abdelhani Kensi (Algeria) 31–19
• Defeated Ihsan Yildirim Tarhan (Turkey) 16–11
• Lost to Andre Ward (United States) 15–17

External links

• Utkirbek Khaydarov at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)