Ivailo Marinov
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| Bronze | Moscow 1980 | Light Flyweight | |
| Gold | Seoul 1988 | Light Flyweight | |
Ivailo Marinov (Bulgarian: Ивайло Маринов) (born Ismail Mustafov on July 12, 1960 in Varna) is a Bulgarian boxer, who won the bronze medal at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 in the light flyweight category (– 48kg), and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul against Michael Carbajal, South Korea.
He won gold medals in the European Boxing Championships in 1981, 1983, 1989 and 1991 and silver medalist in 1985. He won the World Cup[1] in the 48kg category in 1981 and the world title at the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships.[2]
He won the Olympic gold medal in Moscow under his birth name Ismail Mustafov and won Olympic gold in Seoul under the name Ivailo Marinov Khristov. His name was forcibly changed to Marinov under the Zhivkov regime.
He was picked as Bulgaria's No. 1 Boxer of the 20th Century in a survey conducted by the Bulgarian Association of Boxing Journalists.[3]
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| Olympic Boxing Champions (Light Flyweight) |
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| 1968: Francisco Rodríguez (VEN) • 1972: György Gedó (HUN) • 1976: Jorge Hernández (CUB) • 1980: Shamil Sabyrov (URS) • 1984: Paul Gonzales (USA) • 1988: Ivailo Marinov (BUL) • 1992: Rogelio Marcelo (CUB) • 1996: Daniel Petrov (BUL) • 2000: Brahim Asloum (FRA) • 2004: Yan Bartelemí (CUB) |
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