Viktar Zuyev

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Medal record
Competitor for  Belarus
Men’s Boxing
Olympic Games
Silver	2004 Athens	Heavyweight
World Amateur Championships
Bronze	2003 Bangkok	Heavyweight
European Amateur Championships
Bronze	2002 Perm	Heavyweight
Silver	2004 Pula	Heavyweight

Viktar Zuyev (Belarusian: Віктар Зуеў) (born May 22, 1983) is a boxer from Belarus best known to win the heavyweight silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

[edit] Career

The aggressive and hard punching southpaw won a silver medal at the Euro 2004.

Olympic Results 2004:

• Defeated Daniel Betti (Italy) RSC 1 (1:15)
• Defeated Devin Vargas (United States) 36-27
• Defeated Mohamed Elsayed (Egypt) walkover, Elsayed broke his arm in quarterfinal.
• Lost to Odlanier Solis Fonte (Cuba) 13-22

Since then he suffered several setbacks. 2005 he lost at the world championships early to Cuban Luis Ortiz.

2006 he suffered a KO 1 to Elchin Alizade at the Euros.

2007 at the world championships he exited early against Lithuania's Vitalijus Subacius.

In 2008 he turned the tables on Subacius and beat him in a qualifier to punch his Olympic ticket.