Shahin Imranov

Shahin Imranov (Azerbaijani: Şahin İmranov) (born 23 September 1980) is a boxer from Azerbaijan. He is best known for winning two featherweight silver medals at European championships.

Shahin Imranov

Personal information
Full name	Shahin Salim oglu Imranov
Nationality	Azerbaijani
Born	(1980-09-23) September 23, 1980 (age 43) Sumgait, AzSSR, USSR
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Featherweight
Medal record Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Featherweight European Amateur Championships 2002 Perm Featherweight 2006 Plovdiv Featherweight

Career

Imranov won a silver medal at the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in second place at the 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland. In the 2004 Olympics boxing tournament he was defeated in the second round of the featherweight (57 kg) division by the eventual gold medal winner, Russian Alexei Tichtchenko.

He repeated his 2002 championship success at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships. At the world championships of 2007 he was upset by Indian Anthresh Lalit Lakra. At the 2008 Olympics, he retired with an elbow injury in his semifinal bout against Fance's Khedafi Djelkhir and won bronze, he was trailing 2–5.

References

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