Aleksandar Khristov

Aleksandar Khristov

Personal information
Full name	Александър Иванов Христов
Nationality	Bulgaria
Born	July 28, 1964 Plovdiv
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Rated at	Bantamweight
Club	Lokomotiv, Plovdiv
Medal record Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Bantamweight World Amateur Championships 1993 Tampere Bantamweight European Amateur Championships 1987 Turin Bantamweight 1985 Budapest Bantamweight 1996 Vejle Bantamweight

Aleksandar Khristov (Bulgarian: Александър Христов) (born July 28, 1964) is a retired boxer from Bulgaria, who became world champion and represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the silver medal in the bantamweight (51 – 54 kg) division. He also won three medals in the European Amateur Boxing Championships, including gold at the 1987 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Turin, Italy.

Results

1985 European Championships

• Defeated Hermann Leber (Austria) 5:0
• Defeated Relu Nistor (Romania) 5:0
• Defeated Jarmo Eskelinen (Finland) 5:0
• Lost to Ljubiša Simić (Yugoslavia) 1:4

1987 European Championships

• Defeated Mike Devanney (Scotland) RSC-3
• Defeated Ljubiša Simić (Yugoslavia) 5:0
• Defeated René Breitbarth (East Germany) 5:0
• Defeated Yuriy Alexandrov (Soviet Union) 5:0

1988 Summer Olympics

• Defeated Peter Anok (Sudan) 4-1
• Defeated Jung-Il Byun (South Korea) 4-1
• Defeated Jimmy Majanya (Sweden) 5-0
• Defeated Alexander Artemev (Soviet Union) 3-2
• Defeated Jorge Eliecer Julio (Colombia) 3-2
• Lost to Kennedy McKinney (United States) 0-5

1996 Summer Olympics

• Lost to Carlos Barreto (Venezuela) 3-9

References

• databaseOlympics.com
• sports-reference