Arnold Vanderlyde

Arnold Vanderlyde (actually Arnold Petrus Maria van der Lijde; born January 24, 1963 in Sittard ) is a retired Dutch boxer. Vanderlyde won three Olympic bronze medal, twice the silver medal at the World Championships and was three times European champion.

Career

Arnold Vanderlyde began in 1978 with the boxes. In his career he played 254 fights of which he won 233. Eight times he won the Dutch league title in the heavyweight division in 1983 and from 1985 until 1991.

Olympic games

He took for the Netherlands participated in three Olympic Games and won a bronze medal each. In 1984 he was defeated in the semifinals of the Canadian Willy DeWitt on points, 1988, he won in the first round of the tournament against Henry Akinwande, but lost in the semifinals to advance to the gold medalist Ray Mercer. In 1992, he ultimately failed by a point defeat in the semifinal Félix Savón.

World Championships

Vanderlyde was also a two-time runner-up. In the amateur world championships in 1986 in Reno, he won the semi-final against Michael Bentt, but lost the final against Savón. At the World Championships in Moscow in 1989, he had already met in the first fight again on the Cuban Savón, which again represented an insurmountable obstacle for him. Also in the finals in 1991 in Sydney, he was inferior to him on points (then Fritz Sdunek ). He fought five times in his career against the Cuban Legend, without that he had a victory.

European Championships

So he celebrated his greatest successes at European level and won three times European champion. At the European Championships 1983 in Varna, he failed still in the quarterfinals to Alexander Jagubkin and 1985 in Budapest, he took a third place, the following three title fights (1987 in Turin, in 1989 in Athens with a final win over Axel Schulz and 1991 in Gothenburg ), he could but then decide for themselves.

In 1992, he finished his career. He was never a professional boxer and today businessman in the field of sport and business.

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