Pál Bedák

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The native form of this personal name is Bedák Pál. This article uses the Western name order.

Medal record
Competitor for Hungary
Men’s Boxing
World Amateur Championships
Silver	2005 Mianyang	Light Flyweight
European Amateur Championships
Bronze	2004 Pula	Light Flyweight
EU Amateur Championships
Gold	2007 Dublin	Light Flyweight

Pál Bedák (born 8 September 1985) is a boxer from Hungary best known to win the silver medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships.

His younger brother Zsolt Bedák is a bantamweight boxer.

[edit] Career

At his international debut Bedák won the European Cadet Championships in 2002. As a junior he won the European Junior Championships (2003) and the Junior World Championships (2004), where he beat future world champion Sergey Vodopyanov in the final.

Bedák won the bronze medal at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula.

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native European country. There he was defeated in the first round of the light flyweight (48 kg) division by Azerbaijan's Jeyhun Abiyev.

He later managed to win the silver medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships losing to Chinese Zou Shiming.

At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships he made an early exit against European champion David Ayrapetyan.