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| Born | 1998 (age 26–27) Kokshetau, Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | Featherweight | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Orazbek Assylkulov (born 1998) is a Kazakhstani boxer. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2025 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships and silver medal at the 2024 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships.
Born in Kokshetau, Assylkulov took up boxing at the age of 10. [1]
In November 2018, Assylkulov competed in the 56 kg category of the national championships and won the silver medal, losing to Kairat Yeraliyev. [2] [3] In December 2021, he competed in the 57 kg category of the national championships and won the gold medal. [4] He returned to the national championships the following year, where he won the silver medal in the same category. [5]
At the 2024 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships, Assylkulov competed in the featherweight division where he reached the gold medal bout, losing to Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov in the final. [6]
Assylkulov competed in the featherweight division of the 2025 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships. He defeated Elisandro Sanches da Silva in the round of 32 and Mukelo Dlamini in the following round, the latter by knockout. [7] [8] He then defeated Carlos Martínez Bernad in the quarterfinal and Andrei Peglivanian in the semifinals. [9] [10] In the gold medal match, he defeated Khusravkhon Rakhimov. [11]