Nurbek Oralbay
Oralbay at the 2024 Olympic Games as depicted on a 2025 Kazakh stamp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Native name | Нұрбек Рахатұлы Оралбай | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Kazakh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 June 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nurbek Rahatūly Oralbay (Kazakh: Нұрбек Рахатұлы Оралбай; born 11 June 2000) is a Kazakh amateur boxer. He won gold medal at the 2018 Youth World Championships in the middleweight division.[1] In 2022, he won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Amman.[2] At the World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Oralbay competed in the 80 kg weight category. In the final match for the gold medal, he defeated Tuohetaerbieke Tanglatihan and became the world champion. [3]
2024 Summer Olympics
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, he had his first fight against Australian Callum Peters. Oralbay won with a score of 3:2 and in the quarterfinals faced Azerbaijani boxer Murad Allahverdiyev, winning unanimously by the judges. In the semifinals, he competed against Dominican Cristian Pinales, winning with a score of 3:2 and advancing to the final. In the final, he lost to Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Khyzhniak, earning a silver medal.[4]
Personal life
He is the twin brother of fellow boxer Aibek Oralbay.[5]
References
- ^ Men's Middle (75kg)
- ^ "Олимпиада-2024: Боксшы Нұрбек Оралбай әлем мықтыларымен жұдырықтасады" [Olympics-2024: Boxer Nurbek Oralbai will fight with the world's best]. olympic.kz (in Kazakh).
- ^ "Қазақ пен қазақтың бәсекесі: Нұрбек Оралбай әлем чемпионы атанды" [Kazakh vs. Kazakh rivalry: Nurbek Oralbai becomes world champion]. egemen.kz (in Kazakh).
- ^ "ORALBAY Nurbek". Paris 2024 Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024.
- ^ "The Oralbay twin brothers shined in the semi-finals of the Cologne Boxing World Cup". asbcnews.org. Asian Boxing Confederation.
External links
- Boxing record for Nurbek Oralbay from BoxRec (registration required)
- Nurbek Oralbay at Olympics.com
- Nurbek Oralbay at Olympedia
- Nurbek Oralbay at InterSportStats
- Nurbek Oralbay at Olympic.kz
- Nurbek Oralbay on Instagram