Almedin Fetahović
Almedin Fetahović (* 1964 ) is a former Yugoslav and Bosnian boxer .
Career
Fetahović boxed for Željezničar Sarajevo. He won the silver medal at the Yugoslav Junior Championships in 1981 and the gold medal at the Balkan Junior Championships in 1982. In the same year he also won bronze at the U20 Balkan Championships in Greece.
In 1989 he won the Yugoslav welterweight championships and in 1993 the light middleweight championships at the Mediterranean Games in Narbonne , France. In the final, he defeated the later Olympic silver medalist Malik Beyleroğlu . It was the first gold medal in an international sports competition for Bosnia.
In 1995 he became Bosnian champion and took part in the 1995 World Championships in Berlin , made it through the two preliminary rounds, but was then defeated in the second round against Józef Gilewski from Poland.
He is co-founder of the boxing club BK Ilidža and trainer, among others, of Memnun Hadžić , who won the first medal in a European boxing championship for Bosnia in 2008, and Džemal Bošnjak , medal winner of the Mediterranean Games in 2013.
In 2014 he was awarded the B&H National Sport Award alongside the soccer player Mirsad Fazlagić , the judoka Dražen Subotić and the boxer Dašo Simeunović .
Web links
- Results of the 1993 Mediterranean Games
- Results of the 1995 World Cup
- Predstavljamo: Almedin Fetahović (Bosnian)
- B&H National Sport Awards to Mirsad Fazlagić, Almedin Fetahović, Dražen Subotić and Dašo Simeunović (English)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fetahović, Almedin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav or Bosnian boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |