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Kirkor Kirkorov (Bulgarian: Киркор Киркоров; born March 4, 1968, as Krikor Kirkorian) is a retired Bulgarian boxer who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was defeated in the first round of the Men's Featherweight Division (– 57 kg) by Germany's eventual gold medalist Andreas Tews.
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Full name | Kirkor Mikhaylov Kirkorian | |||||||||||||||||
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Born | Varna | March 4, 1968|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Featherweight | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Chernomore, Varna | |||||||||||||||||
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Kirkorov also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round before falling to South Korea's Lee Jae-Hyuk. He won the world title in his weight division in 1991, after having claimed the silver medal two years earlier in Moscow.
References
edit- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kirkor Kirkorov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.