- Pál Bedák
Pál Bedák (born
September 8 1985 inBudapest ) is a boxer fromHungary best known to win the silver medal at the2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships . His older brotherZsolt Bedák is abantamweight boxer.At his international debut Bedák won the European Cadet Championships in 2002. As a junior he won the European Junior Championships (2003) and the Junior World Championships (2004), where he beat future world champion
Sergey Vodopyanov in the final.Bedák won the bronze medal at the
2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships inPula .He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native European country. There he was defeated in the first round of the light flyweight (48 kg) division by Azerbaijan's
Jeyhun Abiyev .He later managed to win the silver medal at the
2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships losing to ChineseZou Shiming .At the
2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships he made an early exit against European championDavid Ayrapetyan , at the 2008 Olympics he was edged out in his first bout 7:8 byBirzhan Zhakypov .References
* [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/hun/Pal+Bedak/1727750 Yahoo! Sports]
* [http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/pal-bedak-1.html sports-reference]
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