Aleksandar Christow (boxer)

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Aleksandar Christow ( Bulgarian Александър Христов ; English transcription: Aleksandar Khristov ; born July 28, 1964 in Plovdiv ) is a former Bulgarian boxer . Christow was bronze medalist at the European Championships in 1996 , silver medalist at the European Championships in 1985 and the Olympic Games in 1988 , European Champion in 1987 and World Champion in 1993 .

Career

The athlete, who was named Alexander Christov in German sports reporting in the early 1990s, won the silver medal in bantamweight at the European Championships in Budapest in 1985 . He was only defeated in the final to the Yugoslav Ljubiša Simić .

In 1987 he won the European Championships in Turin . He had won the bantamweight against Mike Devanney from Scotland, this time also against Ljubiša Simić, the German René Breitbarth and Juri Alexandrow from the Soviet Union.

He then started in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , where he defeated Peter Anok from Sudan, Byun Jung-il from South Korea, Jimmy Mayanja from Sweden, Alexander Artemiew from the Soviet Union and Jorge Julio Rocha from Colombia, and only in the final Kennedy McKinney from the USA was subject.

Christow was in 1993 at the 7th World Championships in Tampere, Finland world champion in bantamweight. After an 8-0 point victory in the semifinals over the Turkish İlhan Guler , he defeated the Cuban Joel Casamayor in the final , who had previously defeated Dirk Krüger from Berlin in the preliminary round and in the semifinals had the upper hand against the Russian Wladislaw Antonow with 6-12, after points with 13: 7.

In June 1994 he won the 7th Bantamweight World Cup in Bangkok . He beat the eventual Olympic champion István Kovács in the semifinals .

At the European Championships in Vejle in 1996 , he won a bronze medal. This time he was defeated in the semifinals against István Kovács.

Also in 1996 he started at the Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta , but lost in the first fight against Carlos Barreto from Venezuela.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aleksandar Christow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  2. ↑ Results of the 1985 European Championships in Budapest
  3. ^ Results of the 1987 European Championships in Turin
  4. ↑ Boxergebnisse the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul
  5. ^ "Results without Bundesliga - Boxing", Sport-Bild from May 19, 1993, p. 70
  6. ↑ Results of the 7th Boxing World Cup in Bangkok 1994
  7. ↑ Results of the European Championships in Vejle in 1996
  8. ↑ Boxergebnisse the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
personal data
SURNAME Christov, Aleksandar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christov, Alexander; Khristov, Aleksandar (English transcription); Христов, Александър (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian boxer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Plovdiv , Bulgaria