Elias Pavlidis
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Full name | Ηλίας Παυλίδης | |||||||||||
Nationality | Greek | |||||||||||
Born | Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk | May 4, 1978|||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||
Weight class | Heavyweight | |||||||||||
Club | PAOK, Thessaloniki | |||||||||||
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Elias Pavlidis (born May 4, 1978, in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk), sometimes written Helias or Ilias Pavlidis, is a Greek amateur boxer best known to compete at the Athens Olympics 2004. He was born in Russia.
Career
At the 2003 World Championships he lost his first bout in the men's light-heavyweight division to eventual winner Evgeny Makarenko from Russia.
At the
Athens, Greece by defeating Kazakhstan's Beibut Shumenov
in the final of the light heavyweight division.
He went up a division to Heavyweight 201 lbs limit in 2007 and was more successful winning the
2007 EU boxing championships where he defeated future world champion Clemente Russo
in the final 13:8.
At the World Championships he was defeated by John M'Bumba.
In Beijing he lost his second bout to Osmay Acosta.
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