Alisher Rahimov | |
Weight Class: | Bantamweight |
Birth Date: | 23 October 1977 |
Birth Place: | Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
Height: | 1.620NaN0 |
Weight: | 54kg (119lb) |
Alisher Rahimov (Russian: Алишер Рахимов; born October 23, 1977) is an amateur boxer from Uzbekistan. He won the gold medal at the 1999 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in his home nation and competed for the bantamweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[1] He defeated South Korea's Cho Seok-Hwan and Algeria's Hicham Blida in the first two rounds, until he lost to Russia's Raimkul Malakhbekov in the quarterfinal match.