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.
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| Full name | Миржан Бейбутович Рахимжанов | |||||||
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| Born | April 11, 1983 Shyrgys, East Kazakhstan Province | |||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in) | |||||||
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | |||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||
| Weight class | Bantamweight | |||||||
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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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