Leonid Bazan

Bulgarian amateur wrestler

Born

11 June 1985, Odesa

Citizenship

Bulgaria

Sport

amateur wrestling

Occupation

amateur wrestler

Height

168 cm (5 ft 6 in)

Weight

66 kg (146 lb)

Leonid Anatolievich Bazan (Bulgarian: Леонид Анатолиевич Базан; born June 11, 1985, in Vynohradivka, Odesa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is an amateur Ukrainian-born Ukrainian, and later, Bulgarian freestyle wrestler.

He competed in the men's wrestling weight classes in the range from 66 to 74 kg.

Bazan competed for Ukraine in the wrestling competition (66 kg) for the World Cup (2007). Having moved to Varna, Bulgaria (2010), he won two silver medals in his division at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in Dortmund, Germany, and at the 2012 European Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. He is also a member of Chernomorskyj Sokol Wrestling Club in Varna, and is coached and trained by Simeon Shterev.

Bazan represented his adopted nation Bulgaria at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the men's 66 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out to Azerbaijan's Jabrayil Hasanov, who was able to score three points each in two straight periods, leaving Bazan with a single point.

Competitions

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q1819364 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.