Detelin Dalakliev (Bulgarian: Детелин Далаклиев) (born 19 February 1983) is a boxer from Bulgaria. He competed in the Bantamweight (– 54 kg) division, and won the gold medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Milano 2009.

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Detelin Dalakliev

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Full name	Детелин Далаклиев
Nationality	Bulgaria
Born	(1983-02-19) 19 February 1983 (age 41) Pleven
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Bantamweight
Club	BK Levski-Luchano, Sofia
Medal record World Amateur Championships 2009 Milan Bantamweight 2003 Bangkok Bantamweight European Amateur Championships 2006 Plovdiv Bantamweight 2008 Liverpool Bantamweight 2004 Pula Bantamweight EU Amateur Championships 2004 Madrid Bantamweight 2005 Cagliari Bantamweight 2007 Dublin Bantamweight 2009 Milano Bantamweight

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Dalakliev won bronze medals at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships and 2001 and 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships and a silver medal at the 2006 and 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships.

He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was knocked out in the round of 16 by Aghasi Mammadov of Azerbaijan.

He represented Bulgaria at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England. At the championships Dalakliev defeated Welshman Andrew Selby in the semifinals before facing inexperienced Englishman Luke Campbell in the final.^[1]

After four rounds Bulgarian levelled the scores in the fight to 5 each after he scored a point in the last two seconds of the fight. The decision then went to countback and Campbell was awarded the title making Campbell the first Englishman to win a European amateur title since 1961.^[2]

Dalakliev competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, once again losing to Luke Campbell, this time in the quarter-finals.^[3]

In 2020 he opened his own boxing club in his birthplace of Pleven, Bulgaria.