Arnold Petrus Maria Vanderlyde (born 24 January 1963) is a Dutch former amateur boxer, who participated in three Summer Olympics (1984, 1988 and 1992) and won three bronze medals in the heavyweight division (≤91 kg). He started boxing at age fifteen. Although Vanderlyde was a three-time European champion and seven-time Dutch champion, he never turned professional. After ending his boxing career in 1992, he entered the corporate world as a motivational speaker. Olympic results 1984 1st round bye Defeated Egerton Forster (Sierra Leone) 4-1 Defeated Georgios Stefanopoulos (Greece) 5-0 Lost to Willie DeWitt (Canada) 2-3 1988 1st round bye Defeated Henry Akinwande (Great Britain) 3-2 Defeated Gyula Alvics (Hungary) 5-0 Lost to Ray Mercer (United States) RSC 2 1992 Defeated Emilio Leti (American Samoa) 14-0 Defeated Sung-Bae Chae (South Korea) 14-13 Defeated Paul Douglas (Ireland) RSC 1 (1:30) Lost to Félix Savón (Cuba) 3-23 External links Personal website (Dutch) 1963 births Living people Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Dutch male boxers Dutch sportspeople of Surinamese descent Heavyweight boxers Olympic boxers of the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics People from Sittard AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Sportspeople from Limburg (Netherlands)