Arnold Petrus Maria Vanderlyde (born January 24, 1963 in Sittard

Sittard

Sittard is a city in the Dutch province of Limburg, which is the southernmost province of the Netherlands.On the east Sittard borders on Germany . It has some 48,400 inhabitants . Sittard is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen...

, Limburg

Limburg (Netherlands)

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) is a former boxer from the Netherlands

Netherlands

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, who participated in three Summer Olympics and won three bronze medals in the heavyweight division (– 91 kg), starting in 1984 in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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. He started boxing at age fifteen. Although he was a three-time European champion and seven-time Dutch champion, he never turned professional.

Olympic results

1984

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Egerton Forster (Sierra Leone) 4-1
• Defeated Georgios Stefanopoulos
  Georgios Stefanopoulos
  Georgios Stefanopoulos is a former boxer from Greece, who participated in two Summer Olympics for his native country in the men's heavyweight division , starting in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. He twice won a medal at the European Championships in the early 1990s...
  
   (Greece) 5-0
• Lost to Willie DeWitt (Canada) 2-3

1988

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Henry Akinwande
  Henry Akinwande
  Henry Akinwande is a British former professional heavyweight boxer and former WBO world heavyweight champion.-Background:...
  
   (Great Britain) 3-2
• Defeated Gyula Alvics (Hungary) 5-0
• Lost to Ray Mercer
  Ray Mercer
  "Merciless" Ray Mercer is an American professional boxer, former Olympic Gold Medalist and WBO heavyweight title holder who resides in Fayetteville, North Carolina...
  
   (United States) RSC 2

1992

• Defeated Emilio Leti (American Samoa) 14-0
• Defeated Sung-Bae Chae (South Korea) 14-13
• Defeated Paul Douglas
  Paul Douglas
  Paul Howard Douglas was an liberal American politician and University of Chicago economist. A war hero, he was elected as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois from in the 1948 landslide, serving until his defeat in 1966...
  
   (Ireland) RSC 1 (1:30)
• Lost to Félix Savón
  Félix Savón
  Félix Savón Fabre is a Cuban heavyweight boxer, a winner of three gold medals at the Olympic Games. Savón is considered a legend in amateur boxing and has won six world titles....
  
  (Cuba) 3-23