Nationality Bulgaria Height 1.68 m Weight 73 kg | Name Leonid Bazan Coached by Simeon Shterev Role Olympic athlete | |
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Full name Leonid Anatolievich Bazan Born 11 June 1985 (age 39) ( 1985-06-11 ) Vynohradiv, Ukrainian SSR Club Chernomorskyj Sokol (BUL) | ||
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Leonid Anatolievich Bazan (Bulgarian: Леонид Анатолиевич Базан; born June 11, 1985 in Vynohradiv, Ukrainian SSR) is an amateur Ukrainian-born Bulgarian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's welterweight category. He won two silver medals in his division at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in Dortmund, Germany, and at the 2012 European Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. He is also a member of Chernomorskyj Sokol Wrestling Club in Varna, and is coached and trained by Simeon Shterev.
Bazan represented his adopted nation Bulgaria at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the men's 66 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out to Azerbaijan's Jabrayil Hasanov, who was able to score three points each in two straight periods, leaving Bazan with a single point.