Zsolt Bedák is a Hungarian 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...

. His younger brother Pál Bedák

Pál Bedák

Pál Bedák is a boxer from Hungary best known to win the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships. His older brother Zsolt Bedák is a bantamweight boxer....

 is a flyweight

Flyweight

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 boxer.

Amateur career

• 2001 Bedák won bronze at the European Junior Championships.

• Member of the Hungarian Olympic Team of 2004 Athens in Bantamweight. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics
  2004 Summer Olympics
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   by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament
  1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament
  The 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from March 30 to April 4, 2004 during the annual Strandjata Boxing Tournament. It was the first chance for amateur boxers from Europe to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics after the European Championships in...
  
   in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

• 2004 Olympic Results - Boxed as a Bantamweight (51 kg)
  • Round of 32 - Defeated Abner Mares
    Abner Mares
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     of Mexico, 36-27
  • Round of 16 - Lost to Maksym Tretyak
    Maksym Tretyak
    Maksym Volodymyrovych Tretyak is a boxer from Ukraine. Tretyak competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and lost in the quarterfinals of the men's bantamweight division to bronze medalist Aghasi Mammadov.Tretyak qualified for the Athens Games by finishing 2nd at the 1st AIBA...
    
     of Ukraine, 24-27

• In 2005 he competed for Romania at the Boxing World Cup
  2005 Boxing World Cup
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   in Moscow, Russia, losing his first match but winning his second in the preliminary round.

• 2006 he won the bronze medal at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships
  2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships
  The Men's 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from July 13 to July 23. The 36th edition of this bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.-Medal winners:-Medal table:...
  
   in Plovdiv
  Plovdiv
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  .

Professional career

He turned pro in 2006 and signed a contract to fight for Hamburg based Universum Box-Promotion. After winning his first 12 fights, in 2009 he won the WBO European super bantamweight title and later also the WBO Inter-Continental super bantamweight title. In 2010 May he fought Wilfredo Vázquez, Jr.

Wilfredo Vázquez, Jr.

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 for the WBO super bantamweight title but lost by TKO in the 10th round.

External links

• Bedák on Boxing.de