Bekzat Sattarkhanov

boxer (1980–2000)

Bekzat Sattarkhanov competed in boxing at a level that the sport still measures itself against.

The record lists Bekzat Sattarkhanov as boxer (1980–2000).

Bekzat Sattarkhanov was born at Turkistan in 1980. His recorded nationality is Kazakhstan.

Modern sport is measured to the hundredth of a second, watched globally and supported by full-time coaching, medicine and analytics.

He competed at boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – featherweight.

In sport the margin between the remembered and the forgotten is often a fraction of a second.

That the career was built from Kazakhstan matters: facilities, coaching and funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide who ever reaches the start line.

Bekzat Sattarkhanov died in 2000, aged 20. The results remain in the record, which is the only permanent form of an athletic career.

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