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Boxing At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Light Welterweight
The light welterweight boxing competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held from 15 to 28 August at Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. This is limited to those boxers weighing between 60 and 64 kilograms. Competition format Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. This event consisted of 27 boxers who have qualified for the competition through various tournaments held in 2003 and 2004. The competition began with a preliminary round on 15 August, where the number of competitors was reduced to 16, and concluded with the final on 28 August. As there were fewer than 32 boxers in the competition, a number of boxers received a bye through the preliminary round. Both semi-final losers were awarded bronze medals. All bouts consisted of four rounds of two minutes each, with one-minute breaks between rounds. Punches scored only if the white area on the front of the glove made full contact with the front of the head or torso of ...
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Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall
The Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall is an indoor arena that is located in Peristeri, west Athens. The hall was the site of the boxing events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The venue originally seated 8,400, though it had a public capacity of only 5,600 for the 2004 Olympics. History After the 2004 Summer Olympics, the indoor facility was partially converted into a 3,000 seat outdoor football pitch. This lowered the seating capacity of the indoor arena from 8,400 to 2,305. The indoor arena has since been mainly used for gymnastics competitions, and at times to host basketball games of the Greek club Peristeri. Since the summer of 2007, the outdoor association football pitch has been used as a training center by the Greek club Atromitos Atromitos (Greek: Ατρόμητος, "fearless") may refer to: * Atromitos F.C., a football team based in Peristeri, Athens, Greece * Atromitos Piraeus, a football team based in Piraeus, Athens, Greece * Atromitos Yeroskipou, a foo ...
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Alessandro Matos
Alessandro de Matos (born 26 September 1980) is a Brazilian boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), .... Boxing career Olympics *2004 - Represented Brazil in Boxing for the 2004 Athina Summer Games Pro boxing career References External links * 1980 births Living people Brazilian male boxers Olympic boxers for Brazil Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Light-welterweight boxers {{Brazil-boxing-bio-stub ...
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Alexander Maletin
Alexandr Ivanovich Maletin (russian: Александр Иванович Малетин; born February 6, 1975) is a boxer from Russia best known to win the lightweight world championships 1997. Career Maletin won the bronze medal in the lightweight division (– 57 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He beat Makhach Nuridinov (Azerbaijan) 14–5, Patrick Lopez (Venezuela) RSC 3 and Selim Palyani (Turkey) RSC 4. In the semifinals, he was defeated by eventual gold medalist southpaw Mario Kindelán from Cuba 15–27. In 2002, he became European champion by besting Boris Georgiev. Light Welterweight He beat Manus Boonjumnong 34:16 in 2003 but controversially lost the World championships final 2003 against French southpaw Willy Blain. Maletin also represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he defeated Saleh Khoulef (Egypt) RSC 3 (0:10) and lost again to Willy Blain (France) 20–28. Olympic results 2000 ...
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Saleh Khoulef
Saleh Khoulef (born March 30, 1975) is an Egyptian boxer., He competed in the light welterweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics. During the competition, he defeated Ukraine's Vyacheslav Senchenko Vyacheslav Senchenko ( uk, В'ячеслав Сенченко, ; born 12 April 1977) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 2002 to 2015, and held the WBA welterweight title from 2009 to 2012. Amateur career Senchenko repres ... in the second round, but was eliminated in the subsequent round. References 1975 births Living people Olympic boxers of Egypt Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Welterweight boxers Egyptian male boxers {{Egypt-boxing-bio-stub ...
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Willy Blain
Willy Blain (born 24 April 1978) is a French boxer, best known to win the 2003 amateur world title in the Light Welterweight division. Amateur The southpaw won silver at the World Championships 1999, losing only to Uzbek Mahammatkodir Abdoollayev. He represented his native country at two Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia where he had a 1st round bye and immediately lost to Diógenes Luña (Cuba) 14-25. His biggest achievement as an amateur was winning the world title at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand with a controversial final win over Alexander Maletin. Olympic Results 2004 *Defeated Mohamed Ali Sassi (Tunisia) 36-14 *Defeated Alexandr Maletin (Russia) 28-20 *Lost to eventual winner Manus Boonjumnong (Thailand) 8-20 Pro Nicknamed "Small Leonard" he made his professional debut on November 16, 2004 in Germany against Francisco Gómez Francisco Gómez is a Spanish name which may refer to: Academics * Francisco Gómez Esc ...
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Mohamed Ali Sassi
Mohamed Ali Sassi (born March 20, 1980) is a Tunisian Olympic boxer . He represented his native North African country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he was stopped in the first round of the Men's Light-Welterweight (– 64 kg) competition by France's Willy Blain. Ali Sassi qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event he defeated home fighter Hicham Nafil. He won a bronze medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia ) , image_map = Tunisia location (orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa , image_map2 = , capital = Tunis , largest_city = capital , .... ReferencesProfile 1980 births Living people Light-welterweight boxers Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Tunisia Tunisian male boxer ...
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Romeo Brin
Romeo Brin (born March 10, 1973 in Puerto Princesa, Palawan) is a retired amateur Filipino boxer. He represented the Philippines in three editions of the Olympic Games (1996, 2000, and 2004), and has captured numerous medals in both lightweight and light-welterweight divisions at the Southeast Asian Games and at the Asian Championships. Throughout his sporting career, Brin has been training for Team Caltex Boxing Club under his head coach and mentor Nolito Velasco. Brin made his official debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he ousted his opening match to Cuba's Julio González Valladares in men's lightweight division (60 kg), receiving a default score of 13–24. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Brin was upgraded to light welterweight division (63.5 kg), but lost the same round again to Belarus' Siarhei Bykovski in a close decision of 5–8. Eight years after competing in his Olympic debut, Brin qualified for his third Filipino squad, as a 31-yea ...
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Patrick Bogere
Patrick Ssali Bogere (born 14 December 1981 in Kampala, Uganda) is a retired amateur Swedish boxer and criminal of Ugandan descent. He claimed numerous Swedish championship titles in light welterweight boxing, represented Sweden at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has held a dual citizenship between Sweden and Uganda in order to compete internationally. Throughout his amateur sporting career, Bogere fought and trained under his personal coach and mentor Tommy Andersson for Angered Boxing Club in Göteborg before he later turned into professional in 2008. Bogere qualified for Sweden in the men's light welterweight division (63.5 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a berth and defeating Italy's Michele di Rocco for the title from the second AIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland. Bogere lost his opening match to Filipino boxer and three-time Olympic veteran Romeo Brin in a close decision of 35–43. In late September 2006, Bogere was ch ...
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Spyridon Ionnidis
Spyridon Ioannidis (born 25 December 1981) is a Greek boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), .... References 1981 births Living people Greek male boxers Olympic boxers for Greece Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Light-welterweight boxers 21st-century Greek people {{Greece-boxing-bio-stub ...
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Nurzhan Karimzhanov
Nurzhan Karimzhanov (born 30 May 1980) is a Kazakhstani boxer, who won the gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games in the Junior Welterweight division. Career At the Olympics 2000 he fought at lightweight and beat among others local hero Michael Katsidis but lost to Andriy Kotelnyk. At the Asian Games he won the junior welterweight title. Karimzhanov qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in second place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, PR China. In the final he lost to Thailand's eventual gold medalist Manus Boonjumnong. At the Olympics 2004 he beat two opponents, but lost to Boris Georgiev Boris Georgiev ( bg, Борис Георгиев) (born 5 December 1982) is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the light welterweight class. Career In 2000 he lost the European fea ... 18:20. References External linksYahoo 1980 births Living people Kazakhstani male boxers ...
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Juan De Dios Navarro
Juan de Dios Navarro Ramírez (born 18 July 1984) is a Mexican former boxer who represented his country in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Amateur career Navarro was defeated in the first round of the Light welterweight (54 kg) division of the 2004 Summer Olympics by Kazakhstan's Nurzhan Karimzhanov. Navarro won the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. He qualified for the Olympic Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA American 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Tijuana, Mexico Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana"
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Isidro Mosquea
Isidro Mosquea Rodríguez (born 14 August 1976) is a boxer from the Dominican Republic. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native Caribbean country. There he was stopped in the first round of the Light welterweight (64 kg) division by Morocco's Hicham Nafil. Mosquea won the silver medal in the same division one year earlier, at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo , total_type = Total , population_density_km2 = auto , timezone = AST (UTC −4) , area_code_type = Area codes , area_code = 809, 829, 849 , postal_code_type = Postal codes , postal_code = 10100–10699 (Distrito Nacional) , websi .... External linksYahoo! Sports 1976 births Living people Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 2003 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic male boxers Pan American Games silver medalists for the Dominican Republic Pan American Games medalists in boxing Central American ...
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