Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov

Mirzhan Beybutovich Rakhimzhanov (Kazakh: Миржан Бейбутович Рахимжанов; born August 18, 1983 in East Kazakhstan Province) is a male boxer from Kazakhstan. He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he was stopped in the second round of the men's flyweight division ( 51 kg) by Russia's Georgy Balakshin.

Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov
Personal information
Full nameМиржан Бейбутович Рахимжанов
Nationality Kazakhstan
Born (1983-04-11) April 11, 1983
Shyrgys, East Kazakhstan Province
Height1.64 m (5 ft 4 12 in)
Weight51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classBantamweight

Rakhimzhanov qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place in the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Karachi, Pakistan. In the final he defeated Indonesia's Bonyx Yusak Saweho. He was a member of the Kazakhstan national team that competed at the 2005 Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia.


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