Rustam Saidov

Rustam Saidov

Personal information
Full name	Рустам Саидов
Nationality	Uzbekistan
Born	(1978-02-06) 6 February 1978 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	96 kg (212 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Super heavyweight
Medal record Olympic Games Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Super heavyweight World Amateur Championships Bronze medal – third place 2003 Bangkok Super heavyweight Asian Games Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan Super heavyweight Gold medal – first place 2006 Doha Super heavyweight Asian Championships Gold medal – first place 1999 Tashkent Super heavyweight Gold medal – first place 2002 Seremban Super heavyweight Gold medal – first place 2007 Ulan Bator Super heavyweight Silver medal – second place 2005 Ho Chi Minh City Super heavyweight

Rustam Saidov (Рустам Саидов; born 6 February 1978) is a boxer from Uzbekistan, who competed in the Super Heavyweight (+91 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.

Career

In Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he was eliminated in the first round of the Super Heavyweight (over 91 kg) division by Cuba's southpaw Michel Lopez Nuñez (13-18). He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. In the final, he defeated Tajikistan's Sergei Kharitonov.

In 2002 and 2006, he became Asian champ beating Olympic silver medallist Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov in the final both times.

2005 he lost to Russian southpaw Roman Romanchuk at the World Championships.

2007 he again made an early exit from the World Championships.

Olympic results

2000

• Defeated Ahmed Abdel Samad (Egypt) 21-8
• Defeated Art Binkowski (Canada) RSC 2
• Lost to Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov (Kazakhstan) 22-28

2004

• Lost to Michel López Núñez (Cuba) 13-18

References

• Rustam Saidov at databaseOlympics.com (archived)