Shahin Imranov
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| Full name | Shahin Salim oglu Imranov | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Azerbaijan | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
September 23, 1980 Sumqayit, Azerbaijan | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Featherweight | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Shahin Imranov (Azerbaijani: Şahin İmranov) (born 23 September 1980) is a boxer from Azerbaijan. best known to win two featherweight silver medals at European championships.
Career
Imranov won a silver medal at the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in second place at the 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland. In Athens, Greece he was defeated in the second round of the featherweight (57 kg) division by Russia's eventual winner Alexei Tichtchenko.
He repeated his success and the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
At the world championships 2007 he was upset by Indian Anthresh Lalit Lakra.
At the Olympics 2008 he retired with an elbow injury in his semifinal against Khedafi Djelkhir and won Bronze, he was trailing 2:5.