Alexander Maletin

Alexander Maletin
Medal record
Men’s Boxing
Competitor for  Russia
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney Lightweight
World Amateur Championships
1997 Budapest Lightweight
2003 Bangkok Light Welterweight
2001 Belfast Lightweight
European Amateur Championships
2000 Tampere Lightweight
2002 Perm Lightweight
2004 Pula Light Welterweight

Alexandr Ivanovich Maletin (Russian: Александр Иванович Малетин; born February 6, 1975) is a boxer from Russia best known to win the lightweight world championships 1997.

Career

Maletin won the bronze medal in the lightweight division (– 57 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He beat Makhach Nuridinov (Azerbaijan) 14–5, Patrick Lopez (Venezuela) RSC 3 and Selim Palyani (Turkey) RSC 4. In the semifinals, he was defeated by eventual gold medalist southpaw Mario Kindelán from Cuba 15–27. In 2002, he became European champion by besting Boris Georgiev.

Light Welterweight

He beat Manus Boonjumnong 34:16 in 2003 but controversially lost the World championships final 2003 against French southpaw Willy Blain. Maletin also represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he defeated Saleh Khoulef (Egypt) RSC 3 (0:10) and lost again to Willy Blain (France) 20–28.

Olympic results

2000

2004

References



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