Georgi Kandelaki

Georgi Kandelaki (born April 10, 1974 in Gori, Georgia) is a former boxer from Georgia, who won the gold medal in the super heavyweight division at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. A year earlier he represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Kandelaki became a pro in 1998, and captured the vacant World Boxing Union heavyweight title on December 21, 2002, by defeating Russia's Alex Vassilev in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Amateur Accomplishments

Junior Champion of Georgia 1985-1997
1993 Silver Medalist at the Senior World Championships
1993 European champion
1997 Gold Medalist at the World Championships in Budapest
Member of the 1996 Georgian Olympic Team as a Heavyweight

1997 World Championship Results:
*10/20/1997 Defeated Vitali Boot 4-2
*10/21/1997 Defeated Petr Horacek TKO 1
*10/22/1997 Defeated Jean-Francois Bergeron 7-3
*10/24/1997 Defeated Serguei Lyakhovich 5-3
*10/26/1997 Defeated Alexis Rubalcaba 4-1

1996 Olympic Results:
*Defeated Thompson Garcia (Ecuador) RET 2
*Defeated Wojciech Bartnik (Poland) 6-1
*Lost to Felix Savon (Cuba) 4-20

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