Uzbekistan national amateur boxing athletes
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Uzbekistan
national boxing athletes represents Uzbekistan in regional
, continental
and world
tournaments sanctioned by the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA).
2006 Doha Asian Games
10 amateur boxers represents Uzbekistan in this edition of the Asiad. This country brought home 5 gold medals at the last Asian Games
in Busan
, South Korea
.
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
national boxing athletes represents Uzbekistan in regional
West Asian Games
West Asian Games are a bi-annual multi-sport event held among the athletes from West Asia.At present, WAG are joined by thirteen members namely Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.The West Asian Games were first...
, continental
Asian Games
The Asian Games, officially known as Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games they have been organised by the...
and world
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
tournaments sanctioned by the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA).
2004 Athens Olympics
Uzbekistan sent nine boxers to Athens. All nine made it past the round of 32, with five victories and four byes. Four of the boxers fell in the round of 16 (two of which had not had matches in the round of 32). Three more barely missed medalling by being defeated in the quarterfinals, while the two that had won their quarterfinal bouts both lost in the semifinals to earn bronze medals. These two bronze medals put the Uzbekis in a four-way tie for 12th place in the boxing medals count. The combined record of the nine boxers was 12-9.Entry list
- Tulashboy DoniyorovTulashboy DoniyorovTulashboy Doniyorov is a boxer from Uzbekistan, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native Asian country.-Career:2002 at the Asian Games he was eliminated in the first round by Filipino Violito Payla....
(Flyweight) - Bahodirjon SooltonovBahodirjon SooltonovBahodirjon Sooltonov is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the bantamweight division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.-Career:...
(Bantamweight) - Bronze medalist - Bekzod KhidirovBekzod KhidirovBekzod Khidirov is a boxer from Uzbekistan, who participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native Asian country. There he was stopped in the round of sixteen of the Featherweight division by Kazakhstan's Galib Jafarov.-References:*...
(Featherweight) - Dilshod MahmudovDilshod MahmudovDilshod Mahmudov is a boxer from Uzbekistan who has won several medals in international tournaments.-Career:Formally of Uzbekistan Dilshod Mahmudov now based at BHS boxing gym in Blacktown, where he calls home...
(Light Welterweight) - Sherzod HusanovSherzod Husanov-Amateurs:In 2000 when Sydney hosted the Summer Games, he lost in his second bout, to Vitalie Gruşac of Moldova.In 2003, at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, he won the silver medal in the Welterweight division....
(Welterweight)
- Sherzod AbdurahmonovSherzod AbdurahmonovSherzod Abdurahmonov is a boxer from Uzbekistan, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native Asian country. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the Men's Middleweight division by Russia's eventual runner-up Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov...
(Middleweight) - Utkirbek HaydarovUtkirbek HaydarovUtkirbek Haydarov is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the light heavyweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.-Career:...
(Light Heavyweight) - Bronze medalist - Igor AlborovIgor AlborovIgor Alborov is a Russian boxer from Uzbekistan, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native Asian country...
(Heavyweight) - Rustam SaidovRustam SaidovRustam Saidov is a boxer from Uzbekistan, who competed in the Super Heavyweight at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.-Career:...
(Super Heavyweight)
2006 Doha Asian Games2006 Asian GamesThe 15th Asian Games, officially known as the XV Asiad, is Asia's Olympic-style sporting event that was held in Doha, Qatar from December 1 to December 15, 2006. Doha was the first city in its region and only the second in West Asia to host the games...
10 amateur boxers represents Uzbekistan in this edition of the Asiad. This country brought home 5 gold medals at the last Asian Games2002 Asian Games
The 2002 Asian Games, also known as XIV Asiad is a multi-sport event held in Busan, South Korea from September 29 to October 14, 2002. Busan is the second city, after Seoul in 1986 to host the Games. A total of 419 events in 38 sports were contested by 7,711 athletes from 44 countries...
in Busan
Busan
Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...
, 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...
.
Entry list
- Utkirbek Haydarov (Light HeavyweightLight heavyweightIn boxing, the light heavyweight is a weight division above 168 pounds [12 Stone or 76.204 kilograms] and up to 175 pounds [12.5 stone or 79.38 kilograms]), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight...
) - Bekzod Khidirov (LightweightLightweightLight-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing....
) - Dilshod Mahmudov (Light WelterweightLight welterweight-Professional boxing:The light welterweight class is a weight division in professional boxing that has a limit of 63.5 kg or 140 pounds...
) - Jasur MatchanovJasur MatchanovJasur Mazhanov is an Uzbek amateur boxer from Tashkent who medaled repeatedly at 201 lbs in international tournaments.-Career:...
(HeavyweightHeavyweightHeavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...
) - Elshod Rasulov (MiddleweightMiddleweightMiddleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...
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- Rustam Saidov (Super HeavyweightSuper heavyweightIn amateur boxing, the super heavyweight division is a weight class division for fighters weighing in excess of 91 kilograms . Introduced for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the division, despite its grandiose name, is merely the amateur equivalent of the professional heavyweight division...
) - Orzubek Shayimov (BantamweightBantamweightBantamweight is usually a class in boxing for boxers who weigh above 115 pounds and up to 118 pounds . However, in Mixed Martial Arts it is 134-136 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight...
) - Bahodirjon Sultonov (FeatherweightFeatherweightFeatherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...
) - Rafikjon Sultonov (Light FlyweightLight flyweight- Professional boxing :The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds . When New York legalized boxing in 1920, the law stipulated a "junior flyweight" class, with a weight limit of 99 pounds. When the National Boxing Association was formed in 1921, it also recognized this...
) - Behzodbek Yunusov (WelterweightWelterweightWelterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...
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