Salim Salimov (boxer)

Salim Salimov
Medal record
Representing  Bulgaria
Men's Boxing
European Amateur Championships
2004 Pula Light Flyweight

Salim Salimov (Bulgarian: Салим Салимов; 5 May 1982 – 26 October 2025) was a Bulgarian boxer.

Salimov participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native European country. There he was stopped in the first round of the Light flyweight (48 kg) division by Thailand's Suban Pannon.

He won the bronze medal in the same division six months earlier, at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula.

Salimov died of cancer on 26 October 2025, at the age of 43.[1]

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