Georgi Kandelaki
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Medal record | |||
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Competitor for Georgia | |||
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World Amateur Championships | |||
Gold | 1997 Budapest | Super Heavyweight | |
European Amateur Championships | |||
Gold | 1993 Bursa | Heavyweight |
Georgi Kandelaki (April 10, 1974, in Gori, Georgia) is a former boxer from Georgia, who won the gold medal in the super heavyweight division at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. A year earlier he represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Kandelaki became a pro in 1998, and captured the vacant World Boxing Union heavyweight title on December 21, 2002, by defeating Russia's Alex Vassilev in St. Petersburg, Russia.
[edit] Amateur Accomplishments
Junior Champion of Georgia 1985-1997
1993 Silver Medalist at the Senior World Championships
1993 European champion
1997 Gold Medalist at the World Championships in Budapest
Member of the 1996 Georgian Olympic Team as a Heavyweight
1997 World Championship Results:
- 10/20/1997 Defeated Vitali Boot 4-2
- 10/21/1997 Defeated Petr Horacek TKO 1
- 10/22/1997 Defeated Jean-Francois Bergeron 7-3
- 10/24/1997 Defeated Serguei Lyakhovich 5-3
- 10/26/1997 Defeated Alexis Rubalcaba 4-1
1996 Olympic Results:
- Defeated Thompson Garcia (Ecuador) RET 2
- Defeated Wojciech Bartnik (Poland) 6-1
- Lost to Felix Savon (Cuba) 4-20