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Boxing At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Super Heavyweight
The super heavyweight class in the boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics competition is the heaviest class. Super heavyweights were limited to those boxers weighing over 91 kilograms (200.6 pounds). Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. Both semifinal losers were awarded bronze medals, so no boxers competed again after their first loss. 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 the opponent. Five judges scored each bout; three of the judges had to signal a scoring punch within one second for the punch to score. The winner of the bout was the boxer who scored the most valid punches by the end of the bout. 16 boxers qualified for this category after the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships and 9 Continental Qualification Tournaments. Medalists Draw All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing At The 2008 Summer Olympics
The boxing program of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China was held at the Workers Indoor Arena. Medals were awarded in eleven events, with each event corresponding to a recognized weight division of male boxers. The 2008 games were the last Olympic boxing competition to exclude women, as the International Olympic Committee approved the introduction of female boxing events for the 2012 London Olympics. Like other Olympic combat sports, two bronze medals are awarded; in the case of boxing, both losing semi-finalists receive a bronze medal, with no further play-off. As a result, the quarter-final essentially equates to a bronze medal match, a semi-final to a silver medal match, and the final to a gold medal match. 44 medals are therefore available, 22 of which are bronze medals. Medal summary Medal table Events *Light flyweight (−48 kg) *Flyweight (48–51 kg) *Bantamweight (51–54 kg) *Featherweight (54–57 kg) *Lightweight (57–60 kg) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Payares
José David Payares Julio (born April 27, 1986) is a Venezuelan amateur boxer best known for winning the silver medal at the PanAm Games 2007 in the men's heavyweight division with 91 kg/201 lbs limit. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics at the super heavyweight class. Career At the world championships 2005 he lost in the first round to Jasur Matchanov. He won the South American Games 2006 against Rafael Lima, at the Central American Games 2006 he finished second behind Osmay Acosta. In February in a first PanAm qualifier he ran right into Acosta again and lost. In a second qualification tournament he beat two opponents inside the distance and Canadian Sebastien Lalumiere 20:5 to easily qualify. In Rio at the PanAm Games main event he bested US southpaw Adam Willett 12:8 and Jorge Quiñones from Ecuador but was beaten in the final once again by Acosta. Super Heavyweight At the world championships 2007 he competed at super heavyweight and upset Hungaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaroslavas Jakšto
Jaroslavas Jakšto (born 7 August 1980) is a male amateur Boxing, boxer from Lithuania best known for winning super heavyweight bronze at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia. He was a 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Olympian and also qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Olympics. Career Jakšto won a bronze medal in the same division at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia. He also participated in the Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics. He beat there Victor Bisbal 27-16 but was defeated in the second round of the Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Super heavyweight, Super heavyweight (+91 kg) division by Egypt's eventual runner-up Mohamed Aly (boxer), Mohamed Aly. He won the Chemiepokal Cup in Germany 2005 by beating Michel López Núñez 17:12 and the Military world championships in 2006. At the World Championships 2007 he lost to Vyacheslav Glazkov inside the distance. At the first Olympic qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onorede Ohwarieme
Onoriode Ehwarieme, also known as Onoriode Ehwarieme or Godzilla (born 25 November 1987) was an amateur boxer from Nigeria. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in the super heavyweight division. He turned pro December 5 of 2010. At the 2nd AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament held in Windhoek, Namibia, the first and second-place finisher in his division qualified for the Olympics. He advanced to the finals with a one-point victory over Morris Okola of Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi ... 6-5, thus ensuring qualification - Onoriode ultimately took silver in the competition, losing to fellow-qualifier Mohamed Amanissi.http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/Olympics/Qualifying%20Events/Africa%202/Draw%20Sheet%20+91kg.pdf He lost his Olympic d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islam Timurziev
Islam Yahyayevich Timurziev (russian: Ислам Яхьяевич Тимурзиев; 9 January 1983 – 31 August 2015) was a Russian amateur boxer, best known for winning gold in the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships. Career Born in Nazran, Ingushetia, Timurziev started boxing in 1996. He was a skilled offensive fighter with impressive power in both hands but had defensive weaknesses. He won the U-17 European Championship in 1999, and the Junior European Championships in 2001. He added the military world title in 2003, and won the 2004 Russian national title, but only after he helped his national team winning the Nations World Cup by beating Cuban Odlanier Solis (Olympic Champion at 201 lbs) on points. Later that year while he was out with cancer, his compatriot Roman Romanchuk participated in the world championships. In 2006, Timurziev made a comeback claiming the European title with wins over Roberto Cammarelle, Kubrat Pulev and Robert Helenius. At the World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Rivas
Óscar Andres Rivas Torres (born 6 June 1987) is a Colombian professional boxer who has held the WBC bridgerweight title since 2021. He also challenged for the vacant WBC interim heavyweight title in 2019, and previously held the IBF International, WBC- NABF and WBO-NABO heavyweight titles. As an amateur he won a silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. Amateur career In Cartagena at the 2006 Caribbean Games, the 212 lbs Rivas lost in the first round to Cuban Olympic Bronze medalist Michel López Núñez 4: 4 February 2007 at a PanAm qualifier Rivas scored his first big win by beating two-time American champ Mike Wilson (boxer), Mike Wilson 24:19 but lost to Cuban Robert Alfonso 12:21. In the Pan-American main event in Rio he beat Gerardo Bisbal 22:8, Didier Bence by walkover (injured) and reached the final but lost to Alfonso once again, this time 4:8. In Chicago, at the 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships he stopped Dominican Lequan Carlisle but lost to eventual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kubrat Pulev
Kubrat Venkov Pulev ( bg, Кубрат Венков Пулев; born 4 May 1981) is a Bulgarian professional boxer. He has challenged twice for the unified heavyweight title in 2014 and 2020. At regional level, he has held multiple heavyweight championships, including the European title twice between 2012 and 2016. As an amateur, he won multiple medals at international tournaments, including gold at the 2008 European Championships and bronze at the 2005 World Championships, all in the super-heavyweight division. He also represented Bulgaria at the 2008 Olympics. As of December 2020, he is ranked as the world's tenth best active heavyweight by '' The Ring'' magazine, and ninth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. He was ranked by BoxRec as the world's top 10 heavyweight from 2011 to 2018. Amateur career Heavyweight In February 2002, Pulev won the Strandzha Cup in his native Bulgaria. Pulev, who is nicknamed "The Cobra", beat Cuban world champion Odlanier Solís in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Tomasović (boxer)
Marko Tomasović (born November 10, 1981) is a Croatian Boxer and Kickboxer, best known to qualify for the Olympics 2008 at super heavyweight. He is tall and weights . Career In 2005 Marko entered the W.A.K.O. World Amateur Kickboxing Championships in Szeged, Hungary where he made it to the final of the heavyweight division (91 kg/200.2 lbs) in Full-Contact - only to lose out on a gold medal against Denys Simkin. As an amateur boxer in 2007 Marko made it to the 2007 World Championships where he lost his first bout to David Price. He also returned to kickboxing that year with W.A.K.O. for the world championships in Coimbra, Portugal making the final of the super heavyweight division and winning a silver medal. At the Olympic qualifications he defeated Kurban Günebakan, got a walkover over Magomed Abdusalamov and surprisingly beat Robert Helenius 16:7, thus qualifying for Beijing. In Beijing at the Summer Olympics he ran right into Italian world champion Roberto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruslan Myrsatayev
Ruslan Myrsatayev (born May 7, 1985) is a Kazakh boxer best known for qualifying in the Super Heavyweight division(+91 kg) at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Kazakhstan chose to send Ruslan over veteran Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov and big-punching Rustam Rygebayev who had competed at the 2007 World Championships to the second qualifier as Myrsatayev won the competition. The 207 lb fighter quickly KOd Australian Daniel Beahan but was knocked down and outpointed by Chinese southpaw giant Zhang Zhilei Zhilei Zhang (; born May 2, 1983) is a Chinese professional boxer who has held the WBO interim heavyweight title since April 2023. As an amateur, he won bronze medals at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships, and a silver medal at the 2008 .... External linksQualifier [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Beahan
Daniel Beahan (born 5 April 1984 in Bundaberg, Queensland) is an Australian amateur boxer best known to qualify for the Olympics 2008 at super heavyweight. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Career In 2002 he won a Light-Heavyweight Bronze at the Junior World Championships in Santiago, Cuba when he was stopped in the semi by Ukrainian Roman Zavalnyuk, after beating Chinese boxer XINGYA, FENG. Until 2005 Beahan who is from and works as a plumber then competed at 201 lbs limit where he lost to Bradley M ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed Amanissi
Mohamed Amanissi (born July 29, 1981) is a Moroccan boxer who qualified for the 2008 Olympics at Super Heavyweight. At the 2005 World Championships he lost against Mike Wilson 20:27, in 2007 he lost to Czech Vladimir Prusa 16:22. At the first qualifier 2008 he lost to local Newfel Ouatah 8:21. In the final of the second Qualification tournament he beat fellow qualifier Onorede Ehwareme 10:2. He missed qualification for the Athens Games by ending up in third place at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom .... External links2nd Qualifier 1981 births Olympic boxers for Morocco Living people Heavyweight boxers Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Moroccan male boxers {{Morocco-boxing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newfel Ouatah
Newfel Ouatah (born November 8, 1985) is a French–Algerian professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2007 African Championships at super heavyweight, a silver medal at the 2007 All-African Games and fought at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Career Newfel started boxing in 1998 after the World Cup in France, while all the other children were playing football, he prefer to start boxing in front of his block, at the ''Club Pugillistique Villeurbannais's Gym''. He fought after two month of training his first educative fight and won it. Then he became 2000 French champion in the middleweight division (-75 kg). In 2001 he won the French Cadets (under 17) championship in the light heavyweight (-81 kg). As a Heavyweight he won the 2002 and 2003 Junior (under 19) Nationals championships. He lost in the quarterfinals of the junior world championships when he lost to Robert Alfonso. He became the 2005 (against Stéphane Gomis) and 2006 French champion at 201& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
