Hrachik Javakhyan
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Hrachik Javakhyan is an Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

n lightweight boxer best known to win Silver at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships
2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships
The Men's 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from July 13 to July 23. The 36th edition of this bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.-Medal winners:-Medal table:...

 in Plovdiv
Plovdiv
Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

 and qualifying for the Olympics 2008.

Career

In the semifinal of the Euros 2006 he beat Belarussian Vazgen Safaryants
Vazgen Safaryants
Vazgen Safaryants is a Belarusian amateur boxer of Armenian origin best known for placing third at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships.-References:...

.

At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships
2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships
The 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Chicago, United States from October 23, 2007 to November 3, 2007. It was held at the UIC Pavilion. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history. The championships were originally awarded to Moscow...

 he qualified for the Olympics by reaching the quarterfinal beating fighters like Sadam Ali
Sadam Ali
Sadam Ali , is a professional welterweight boxer from the United States.-Biography:Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there by his Muslim Yemeni-immigrant parents, has four sisters and a brother...

. He lost to his first name opponent in Domenico Valentino
Domenico Valentino
Domenico Valentino is a boxer from Italy.The hard punching Valentino won a bronze medal at lightweight at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia.He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics...

.

At the Olympics he lost the semifinal 5:10 to Aleksei Tishchenko and won Bronze.

Olympic games results

2008 (as a lightweight)
  • Defeated Rasheed Lawal
    Rasheed Lawal
    Rasheed Olawale Lawal is a Nigerian amateur boxer who qualified for the 2008 Olympics in the lightweight division.At the 2007 All-Africa Games he lost to Herbert Nkabiti at junior welterweight and went down a division...

     (Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

    ) 12-0
  • Defeated Jong Sub-Baik (South Korea
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

    ) walk-over
  • Lost to Aleksei Tishchenko (Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    ) 5-10

World amateur championships results

2005 (as a lightweight)
  • Lost to Ibrahim Kamal (Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    ) 18-29


2007 (as a lightweight)
  • Defeated Aivars Romanovskis (Latvia
    Latvia
    Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

    ) 17-14
  • Defeated Sadam Ali
    Sadam Ali
    Sadam Ali , is a professional welterweight boxer from the United States.-Biography:Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there by his Muslim Yemeni-immigrant parents, has four sisters and a brother...

     (United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    ) 20-16
  • Defeated Genebert Basadre
    Genebert Basadre
    Genebert Basadre is an amateur boxer from the Philippines who competed in the Lightweight division at the 2006 Asian Games winning the bronze medal in a lost bout against China's Hu Qing 8-29-. -References:...

     (Philippines
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

    ) 17-6
  • Lost to Domenico Valentino
    Domenico Valentino
    Domenico Valentino is a boxer from Italy.The hard punching Valentino won a bronze medal at lightweight at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia.He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics...

     (Italy
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

    ) 12-27

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