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Hazrat-e Turkestan

-References:*Hill, John E. Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. BookSurge, Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1.*Hulsewé, A. F. P. and Loewe, M. A. N. 1979...

 — December 31, 2000 in Shymkent

Shymkent

Shymkent , formerly known as Chimkent , is the capital city of South Kazakhstan Province, the most populated region in Kazakhstan. It is the third most populous city in Kazakhstan behind Almaty and Astana with a population of 629,600 . A major railroad junction on the Turkestan-Siberia Railway, the...

) was a Kazakh

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

 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...

 who competed in the men's featherweight 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...

 and won the gold medal.

Sattarkhanov died in a car accident in his native Kazakhstan on New Year's Eve 2000. Two others in the car survived.

Olympic results

• 2000 won the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics as a Featherweight. Results were:
  • Round of 32:Defeated Ovidiu Bobirnat of Romania - PTS (11-5)
  • Round of 16:Defeated Jeffrey Mathebula
    Jeffrey Mathebula
    Jeffrey Mathebula is a professional boxer in the super bantamweight division. He is currently ranked as the fifth best super bantamweight in the world by Ring Magazine, and has been ranked in top ten best super bantamweights by Ring Magazine since mid-2009.-External links:...
    
     of South Africa - PTS (16-5)
  • Quarterfinal:Defeated Ramazan Palyani of Turkey - PTS (12-11)
  • Semifinal:Defeated Tahar Tamsamani
    Tahar Tamsamani
    Tahar Tamsamani is a Moroccan boxer who participated in three Olympic tournaments. He was born in Marrakech.-Olympic Games performances:...
    
     of Morocco - PTS (22-10)
  • Final: Defeated Ricardo Juarez of the United States- PTS (22-14)

External links

• Olympic profile