Rustamhodza Rahimov

Rustam Rakhimov ( born February 16, 1975 in Dushanbe; actually Rustamhodscha Rakhimov ) is a German amateur boxer of Tajik origin.

Rakhimov began at the age of twelve years with the boxes. In 1995 he broke away at the World Championships in Berlin from his team and requested asylum in Germany. After he was not allowed to fight in the episode seven years, he was naturalized in 2002 and since then occurs at the German National Season.

German champion was Rakhimov in the years 2002 and 2003 in the featherweight and 2005, 2006 and 2007 bantamweight. At the World Championship 2003 in Bangkok, he lost in the semifinals against the local heroes Somjit Jongjohor and took a third place. Rakhimov took then for Germany at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and won a bronze medal in the flyweight when he was defeated by eventual Olympic champion Yuriolkis Gamboa of Cuba. Another third place he achieved in the 2004 European Championships in Pula.

In 2005 he won the bantamweight title at the World Championships in Mianyang silver. He suggested the U.S. starlet Gary Russell Jr. but lost the final to the Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux. In the Military World Championship 2006 sports soldier also took second place. He had less success in the 2007 World Championships in Chicago, where he was eliminated in the second round against the Kazakhs Mirschan Rachimschanow. With a third place in the first European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Italy he earned the right in the 2008 Olympics in China bantamweight to start ( to 54 kg).

12 August 2008 Rakhimov already retired on the first lap of Olympic bantamweight. He defeated the favorite Hoorshid Tajibaev clear with 11:2 points. Rakhimov was because the other three German Boxer dropped out at the last of these Olympic boxing hope of the Germans in the days before also. No German boxer came in the second round.

After his playing career Rakhimov was coach. Since 2012 it belongs together with Valentin Silaghi, Michael Timm and Zoltan Lunka to the coaching staff of the World Series of Boxing team German Eagles.