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| Full name | Артур Асильбекович Бетербиев | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 21, 1985 Khasavyurt, Respublika Dagestan |
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| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 81 kilograms (180 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Light Heavyweight | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo | ||||||||||||||||||
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Artur Asilbekovich Beterbiyev (Russian: Артур Асильбекович Бетербиев) (born January 21, 1985 in Khasavyurt, Dagestan) is a Chechen amateur boxer (competing for Russia) best known to win silver at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships and gold at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the Euro title 2006 at light heavyweight.
The aggressive puncher Beterbiyev won the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships among others beating Irishman Kenneth Egan and Ismail Sillakh. He beat southpaw Egor Mekhontsev but lost to two-time world champion Evgeny Makarenko in 2006. He finally beat him in 2007 and qualified for the World championships. In the finals he faced little-known Uzbek southpaw Abbos Atoev but was upset.
At the Olympics 2008 he beat Kennedy Katende 15:3 then fell controversially to local Zhang Xiaoping who went on to win.
In Milan he beat young Cuban Jose Larduet and Uzbek Elshod Rasulov for the world championship 2009.
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