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Full name | Abbos Atoyev | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Uzbekistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Vabkent District, Bukhara Province | 7 June 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Middleweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Abbos Abdurazzoqovich Atoyev (born 7 June 1986) is an amateur boxer from Uzbekistan, best known for winning gold in the light heavyweight competition at the 2007 World Championships where he defeated and upset heavy favourite Artur Beterbiev which to this was his only loss, and at middleweight in 2009. He also won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He fights southpaw and was born in the village of Qulkhatib of Vabkent District of Bukhara Province.