Andrzej Rżany

Polish boxer

Andrzej Rżany

Personal information

Nationality

Poland

Born

(1973-09-26) 26 September 1973 (age 50)
Mielec, Podkarpackie, Poland

Height

1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)

Weight

51 kg (112 lb)

Sport

Boxing

Weight class

Flyweight

Club

Gwardia Wrocław

Medal record

World Amateur Championships

	1999 Houston	Flyweight
European Amateur Championships
	2004 Pula	Flyweight
EU Amateur Championships
	2005 Cagliari	Flyweight

Andrzej Rżany (born 26 September 1973) is a boxer from Poland.^[1]

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics where he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Azerbaijan's eventual bronze medalist Fuad Aslanov.

Rżany won the bronze medal in the same division six months earlier, at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula. In addition he won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and reached the quarterfinals at the 2000 Olympics.^[2]

Olympic results

1992 (as a light Flyweight)

Lost to Rajendra Prasad (India) 6–12

2000 (as a flyweight)

Defeated Celestin Augustin (Madagascar) 15–13
Defeated Arlan Lerio (Philippines)
Lost to Wladimir Sidorenko (Ukraine) RSC 3

2004 (as a flyweight)

Defeated Bonyx Yusak Saweho (Indonesia) 25–19
Defeated Hicham Mesbahi (Morocco) 33–20
Lost to Fuad Aslanov (Azerbaijan) 21–22

References

^ "Rżany Andrzej". olimpijski.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 1 December 2018.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrzej Rżany". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.

External links

Andrzej Rzany at Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 October 2012)
Andrzej Rżany at Olympedia
Andrzej Rżany at Olympics.com
Andrzej Rżany at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (archive) (in Polish)