Oleksandr Khyzhniak

Oleksandr Khyzhniak
Олександр Хижняк
Khyzhniak in 2024
Born (1995-08-03) 3 August 1995
Poltava, Ukraine
Statistics
Weight(s)
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
StanceOrthodox
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
2024 ParisMiddleweight
2020 TokyoMiddleweight
World Championships
2017 HamburgMiddleweight
European Games
2019 MinskMiddleweight
2023 Kraków-MałopolskaLight heavyweight
2015 BakuLight-heavyweight
European Championships
2017 KharkivMiddleweight
Youth World Championships
2012 YerevanMiddleweight
European Youth Championships
2013 RotterdamMiddleweight
European Junior Championships
2011 KeszthelyMiddleweight

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Khyzhniak (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Хижняк; born 3 August 1995) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer. He earned a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the middleweight event. At the 2024 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the same event. He comes from a family of boxers, with his second cousin being Ukrainian-Australian amateur boxer Anatoliy “Nat” Oliynyk.