Svilen Rusinov

Svilen Aldinov Rusinov (; born 29 February 1964 in Teteven) is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division (+ 91 kg) at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. He also won the European Championship in 1993 and was twice runner up in the World Amateur Championships.

During his extensive amateur career Rusinov consistently competed at the highest level and boxed a number of amateur and future professional boxing greats. He holds wins over Vitali Klitschko and 3 times Olympic champion Felix Savon, as well as a close loss to Wladimir Klitschko. In an interview he stated that his toughest opponent was Roberto Balado, the 1992 Olympic champion from Cuba .

Olympic results 1988 1st round bye Lost to Andrew Golota (Poland) 0–5

1992 1st round bye Defeated István Szikora (Hungary) 12–4 Defeated Willi Fischer (Germany) 8–5 Lost to Richard Igbineghu (Nigeria) 7–9

Post amateur career Rusinov turned pro in 1999 and fought only one fight, which he won, before retiring. He has stated that in the post-communist years he did not have the opportunity to turn professional. He briefly became a boxing coach at the CSKA club, working amongst others with future professional world title challenger Kubrat Pulev.

Rusinov subsequently became a farmer and mayor of his native village of Gradezhnitsa.