Birzhan Zhakypov | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Біржан Жақыпов 7 July 1984 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | 
Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||||
| Statistics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight(s) | Light flyweight | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||
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Birzhan Zhakypov (born July 7, 1984) is an amateur boxer from Kazakhstan, best known for winning the light flyweight gold medal at the 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championship.
He qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where he beat Pál Bedák and Hovhannes Danielyan before losing to top favorite from China Zou Shiming (4:9).
At the 2010 Asian Games he beat Shin Jong-Hun before losing in the final to Zou Shiming.
At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he lost his first fight to a Cuban. He later qualified for the 2012 Olympics in London, beating Jérémy Beccu and Mark Anthony Barriga before losing again to eventual gold medalist Zou Shiming.
References
- Qualification
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Birzhan Zhakypov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- Birzhan Zhakypov's boxing stats International Boxing Association
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- Living people
- 1984 births
- Olympic boxers for Kazakhstan
- Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Ethnic Kazakh people
- Asian Games medalists in boxing
- Boxers at the 2010 Asian Games
- Boxers at the 2014 Asian Games
- World boxing champions
- Kazakhstani male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Light-flyweight boxers
- 21st-century Kazakhstani people
- People from Turkistan Region
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