Dilshod Yarbekov
Encyclopedia
Dilshod Yarbekov is an Uzbek
boxer
, who has won medals at the Asian and World Championships in the middleweight
category. He is an Honored Sportsman of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics
he lost in the first round to Felix Sturm
(GER, fighting under his birthname A.Catic)
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
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 has won medals at the Asian and World Championships in the middleweight
Middleweight
Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...
category. He is an Honored Sportsman of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Achievements
- 1994 – Asian Games — Bronze Medal
- 1995 – World Amateur Boxing Championships1995 World Amateur Boxing Championshipsthumb|German stamp from 1995The Men's 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin, Germany from May 4 to May 15. The eighth edition of this competition, held a year before the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, was organised by the world governing body for...
— Bronze Medal - 1996 – Central Asian Games — Gold Medal
- 1998 – Asian Games — Silver Medal
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...
he lost in the first round to Felix Sturm
Felix Sturm
Felix Sturm is a German boxer and current WBA middleweight Super champion of Bosniak descent. Sturm was born and raised in Leverkusen, Germany, but both of his parents were immigrants from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Professional career :On 27 January 2001, Sturm made his debut as a...
(GER, fighting under his birthname A.Catic)