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Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov

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Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov
Personal information
Full nameМиржан Бейбутович Рахимжанов
Nationality Kazakhstan
Born (1983-04-11) April 11, 1983 (age 41)
Shyrgys, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.64 m (5 ft 4+12 in)
Weight51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classBantamweight
Medal record
Asian Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Ho Chi Minh City Bantamweight

Mirzhan Beybutovich Rakhimzhanov (Kazakh: Миржан Бейбутович Рахимжанов; born August 18, 1983, in East Kazakhstan Oblast (now East Kazakhstan Province)) is a boxer from Kazakhstan. He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he was stopped in the second round of the flyweight division (– 51 kg) by Russia's Georgy Balakshin.

Rakhimzhanov qualified for the Athens Games by topping the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Karachi, Pakistan. In the final he defeated Indonesia's Bonyx Yusak Saweho. He was a member of the Kazakhstan national team that competed at the 2005 Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia.

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