Mourad Aliev

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Mourad Aliev
Statistics
Weight(s)Super-heavyweight
Height2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)[1]
NationalityFrench
Born (1995-07-31) July 31, 1995 (age 26)
Moscow, Russia
StanceSouthpaw[2]
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Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  France
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2019 Minsk Super-heavyweight

Mourad Aliev (born 31 July 1995)[3] is a French amateur boxer who won a silver medal at the 2019 European Games. While representing France at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aliev was disqualified from his quarterfinal bout.[4][5]

Early life[]

Born in Moscow, Russia, and of Azerbaijani descent,[6] Aliev moved to France at the age of six as a political refugee and became a naturalised French citizen at the age of 22.[7]

Career[]

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Aliev was disqualified in his bout against Frazer Clarke due to a head-butt. As soon as the decision was announced in the ring, Aliev had denounced an injustice.[8] Later, the supervisor certified an error in refereeing and said that there is no error on the part of Aliev, but the decision can not be modified.[8][9][10][11] Aliev staged a sit-in protest for an hour,[12][5] after punching the ringside camera operator.[13] Both actual and former French National Olympic and Sports Committee presidents supported Aliev against what they consider being an injustice.[9]

Personal life[]

His father, Ozer, was also an amateur boxer, representing the USSR.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ "BoxRec: Mourad Aliev". BoxRec. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Ferreira and Romeu shined on the first day at the Cologne Boxing World Cup". AIBA. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Boxing ALIEV Mourad - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympics. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  4. ^ French boxer sits in protest after being disqualified from Olympics over head butt France24, 1 August 2021
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b French boxer stages ringside protest after 'headbutt' disqualification loss against Britain’s Frazer Clarke Pippa Field, The Telegraph, 1 August 2021
  6. ^ Media.Az. "Представляющий Францию азербайджанец завоевал олимпийскую лицензию - ВИДЕО". media.az (in Russian). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  7. ^ Laronche, Romain (15 June 2021). ""Ramener une médaille à Nice", le rêve du boxeur Mourad Aliev aux Jeux olympiques - Nice-Matin". Nice-Matin (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b JO-2020 / Boxing: Mourad Aliev mistakenly disqualified, speaks of "scandal" - France 24, AFP/France 24, 8/1/2021, 9:21:18 AM
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b franceinfo: sport, France Télévision, ed. (1 August 2021). ""JO 2021 - Boxe : la délégation française va contester la disqualification litigieuse de Mourad Aliev devant le TAS"".
  10. ^ AFP (1 August 2021). LaLibre (ed.). ""Le boxeur français Mourad Aliev, disqualifié par erreur aux JO, n'en revient pas: "C'est injuste, tout le monde a vu que j'ai gagné"'".
  11. ^ Séphanie Trouillard (1 August 2021). France24 (ed.). ""Tokyo 2021 : les boxeurs français et l'arbitrage, une malédiction aux JO ?"".
  12. ^ Olympics-Boxing-France's Aliev protests with sit-in after disqualification Chang-ran Kim, Reuters, August 1, 2021
  13. ^ A French Olympic boxer punched a TV camera and sat in the ring for an hour to protest his disqualification Insider, Sinéad Baker, August 1, 2021
  14. ^ Maury, Morgan (28 March 2019). "Jeux européens: Mourad Aliev, le poids lourds français venu du froid". RMC Sport (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2021.


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