Alexander Vladimirovich Povetkin, born on 2 September 1979, is a Russian former professional heavyweight boxer who competed from 2005 to 2021. As an amateur he won super-heavyweight gold medals at the 2002 and 2004 European Championships, the 2003 World Championships and the 2004 Olympics in Athens, finishing with an amateur record of 125 wins and 7 losses. As a professional he held the WBA Regular heavyweight title from 2011 to 2013 and the WBC Interim heavyweight title from 2020 to 2021. He challenged Wladimir Klitschko in 2013 and Anthony Joshua in 2018 for the unified heavyweight championship and lost both fights. BoxRec rated him in the top ten annual heavyweights from 2006 to 2020.
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is a Russian former professional boxer
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born 2 September 1979
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Povetkin won gold medals in the super-heavyweight division at the 2002 and 2004 European Championships, 2003 World Championships, and 2004 Olympics
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is a Russian former professional boxer
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winning the gold medal at super-heavyweight (>91 kg) boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
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