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Vardan Zakaryan is a German amateur boxer of Armenian descent who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics at Flyweight. Zakaryan was defeated in the first round by eventual Gold Medalist Wijan Ponlid of Thailand. [1]
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Vardan Zakaryan is a German amateur boxer of Armenian descent who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics at Flyweight. Zakaryan was defeated in the first round by eventual Gold Medalist Wijan Ponlid of Thailand. [1]
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