Artur Beterbiyev

Artur Beterbiyev

Personal information
Full name	Артур Асильбекович Бетербиев
Nationality	Russia
Born	January 21, 1985 (1985-01-21) (age 26) Khasavyurt, Respublika Dagestan
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	81 kilograms (180 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Rated at	Light Heavyweight
Club	Dynamo
Medal record European Amateur Championships Gold 2006 Plovdiv Light Heavyweight Gold 2010 Moscow Light Heavyweight World Amateur Championships Silver 2007 Chicago Light Heavyweight Gold 2009 Milan Light Heavyweight

Artur Asilbekovich Beterbiyev (Russian: Артур Асильбекович Бетербиев) (born January 21, 1985 in Khasavyurt, Dagestan) is a Chechen amateur boxer (competing for Russia) best known to win silver at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships and gold at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the Euro title 2006 at light heavyweight.

Career

The aggressive puncher Beterbiyev won the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships among others beating Irishman Kenneth Egan and Ismail Sillakh. He beat southpaw Egor Mekhontsev but lost to two-time world champion Evgeny Makarenko in 2006. He finally beat him in 2007 and qualified for the World championships. In the finals he faced little-known Uzbek southpaw Abbos Atoev but was upset.

At the Olympics 2008 he beat Kennedy Katende 15:3 then fell controversially to local Zhang Xiaoping who went on to win.

In Milan he beat young Cuban Jose Larduet and Uzbek Elshod Rasulov for the world championship 2009.

External links

• All results
• sports-reference

Persondata
Name	Beterbiev, Artur
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Short description
Date of birth	January 21, 1985
Place of birth	Grozny, Chechen Republic
Date of death
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