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Shahin Imranov

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Shahin Imranov
Personal information
Full nameShahin Salim oglu Imranov
NationalityAzerbaijani
Born (1980-09-23) September 23, 1980 (age 44)
Sumgait, AzSSR, USSR
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classFeatherweight
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Featherweight
European Amateur Championships
Silver medal – second place 2002 Perm Featherweight
Silver medal – second place 2006 Plovdiv Featherweight

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.

Career

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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.

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