Alisher Rahimov
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| Nationality |
 Uzbekistan | ||||||
| Born |
October 23, 1977 Tashkent, Uzbekistan | ||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | ||||||
| Sport | |||||||
| Sport | Boxing | ||||||
| Rated at | Bantamweight | ||||||
Medal record
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Alisher Rahimov (Russian: Алишер Рахимов; born October 23, 1977) is an amateur boxer from Uzbekistan, who won the gold medal at the 1999 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in his home nation, and competed for the bantamweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[1] He defeated South Korea's Cho Seok-Hwan and Algeria's Hicham Blida in the first two rounds, until he lost to Russia's Raimkul Malakhbekov in the quarterfinal match.
Rahimov is currently a WBC lightweight champion.
References
- ↑ "Alisher Rahimov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 28 October 2012.