Swilen Rusinow

Swilen Rusinow medal table
Boxing
Bulgaria
Olympic games
bronze	1992	Super heavyweight
Boxing world championships
bronze	1986	Heavyweight
silver	1991	Super heavyweight
silver	1993	Super heavyweight
European boxing championships
bronze	1987	Heavyweight
bronze	1989	Super heavyweight
bronze	1991	Super heavyweight
gold	1993	Super heavyweight

Swilen Alidow Rusinow ( Bulgarian Свилен Алидов Русинов ; English transcription: Svilen Alidov Rusinov; born February 29, 1964 in Pleven ) is a former Bulgarian super heavyweight amateur boxer (+ 91 kg). He was runner-up in 1991 and 1993 and also European champion in 1993. His greatest achievement was winning a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

He also won bronze medals at the 1986 World Championships and the 1987, 1989 and 1991 European Championships.

Light heavyweight

His only international appearance in this weight class was that at the 26th European Championship in Budapest in June 1985 , where he was defeated by the Romanian Petre Bornescu in the first fight.

Heavyweight

At the 4th World Championship in May 1986 in Reno (Nevada) , he was only defeated in the semifinals to Félix Savón and thus won bronze. Before that, he defeated the Poland Wiesław Dyła (5-0) and the Finn Jouni Koopola (5-0).

At the 27th European Championship in Turin in June 1987 , he won against the Hungarian Gyula Alvics and only lost to Arnold Vanderlyde in the semi-finals , with which he received the bronze medal.

He also took part in the 24th Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988 , but lost there in the first fight Andrzej Gołota . When he took part in the 2nd Goodwill Games in Seattle in 1990 , he lost to Viktor Akshonov.

Super heavyweight

At the 7th European Junior Championship in Schwerin in September 1982 , Rusinow lost to Sven Karberg from the GDR in the quarterfinals. In 1985 he won the bronze medal at the Eastern Bloc military championships. At the 1st Goodwill Games in July 1986 in Moscow , he lost to the American Michael Bentt .

The 28th European Championship in Athens in June 1989 , he finished with the bronze medal. He had beaten Aziz Salihu (5: 0) and only lost to the Greek Giorgios Tsahakis (2: 3) in the semifinals. At the 5th World Cup in Moscow in October 1989 , he defeated the American Larry Donald , but then lost to the Cuban Roberto Balado .

The 6th World Cup in 1990 in Bombay , he finished with the silver medal. He was again inferior to Roberto Balado in the final. In May 1991 he also won the bronze medal at the 29th European Championships held in Gothenburg . In November he also won the silver medal at the 6th World Cup in Sydney , where he defeated Richard Bango and Larry Donald and only lost to Roberto Balado again in the final.

At the 25th Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 , he defeated u. a. Willi Fischer lost to Richard Bango in the semifinals and thus won bronze.

In May 1993 he became vice world champion in Tampere (victories against Petr Řezníček, Rimantas Prišmantas and Evgeniy Belousov, final defeat against Roberto Balado), in September of the same year in Bursa European champion (victories against Piotr Jurczyk, Andrey Aulov, Kevin McCormack and Zurab Sarsania) . At the 1994 World Cup in Bangkok , he won the quarterfinals against Vitali Klitschko . In the semifinals he lost again to Roberto Balado and won bronze.

At the 8th World Cup in 1995 in Berlin he was defeated by Alexei Lesin , at the 1st Military World Cup in Rome by Vitali Klitschko. His last international tournament played Rusinov in 1996 at the European Championships , but in which he was eliminated in the first fight against Adaliat Mamedov, Azerbaijan (KO 1st).

On April 3, 1999, he played the first and only professional fight of his career. He won against his compatriot Georgi Hristov over four rounds on points.

Web links

• Swilen Rusinow in the Olympedia.org database (English)
• Svilen Rusinov, sports facilities