Alexandr Ivanovich Maletin is a boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 from Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 best known to win the lightweight world championships 1997.

Career

Maletin won the bronze medal in the lightweight

Lightweight

Light-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing....

 division (– 57 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

 in Sydney, Australia. He beat Makhach Nuridinov (Azerbaijan) 14-5, Patrick Lopez

Patrick López

Patrick López is a light-welterweight boxer from Venezuela. He won the gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games.-Amateur:...

 (Venezulea) RSC 3 and Selim Palyani

Selim Palyani

Selim Palyani is a boxer from Turkey, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Lightweight division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland....

 (Turkey) RSC 4.
In the semifinals he was defeated by eventual gold medalist southpaw Mario Kindelán from Cuba

Cuba

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 15-27.
2002 he became European champion by besting Boris Georgiev

Boris Georgiev

Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

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Light Welterweight

He beat Manus Boonjumnong

Manus Boonjumnong

Manus Boonjumnong is a Thai boxer who won the Olympics at Light Welterweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics . He is the brother of Non Boonjumnong.-Amateur career:...

 34:16 in 2003 but controversially lost the World championships final 2003 against French southpaw Willy Blain

Willy Blain

Willy Blain is a boxer from France, best known to win the 2003 amateur world title in the Light Welterweight division.-Amateur:...

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Maletin also represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

 in Athens, Greece
where he defeated Saleh Khoulef (Egypt) RSC 3 (0:10) and lost again to Willy Blain (France) 20-28.

Olympic results

2000

• Defeated Makhach Nuridinov (Azerbaijan) 14-5
• Defeated Patrick Lopez
  Patrick López
  Patrick López is a light-welterweight boxer from Venezuela. He won the gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games.-Amateur:...
  
   (Venezulea) RSC 3
• Defeated Selim Palyani
  Selim Palyani
  Selim Palyani is a boxer from Turkey, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Lightweight division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland....
  
   (Turkey) RSC 4
• Lost to Mario Kindelán (Cuba) 15-27

2004

• Defeated Saleh Khoulef (Egypt) RSC 3 (0:10)
• Lost to Willy Blain
  Willy Blain
  Willy Blain is a boxer from France, best known to win the 2003 amateur world title in the Light Welterweight division.-Amateur:...
  
  (France) 20-28