Abbos Abdurazzoqovich Atoyev (born 7 June 1986) is an Uzbek amateur boxer, best known for winning gold in the light heavyweight competition at the 2007 World Championships and at middleweight in

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. He also won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He fights southpaw and was born in the village of Qulkhatib of Vabkent District of

Bukhara Province Bukhara Region (Buxoro Region) ( uz, Buxoro viloyati/Бухоро вилояти, بۇحارا ۋىلايەتى, russian: Бухарская область) is a region of Uzbekistan located in the southwest of the country. The Kyzyl Kum desert ...

Career

In June 2007 he won the

2007 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships The 24th edition of the Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships were held from June 4 to June 10, 2007 in wrestling palace of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. About 140 athletes from 20 countries and regions competed for the 11 champions during seven day ...

, beating future Olympic champion Zhang Xiaoping in the final. At the 2007 World Championships he defeated Frenchman Mamadou Diambang inside the distance, Croatian

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in the quarterfinals, and

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of Kazakhstan in the semifinals. In the final, he sensationally upset Russian favorite Artur Beterbiyev after being knocked down in the third and trailing but edging it out back down the stretch. At the

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, he was upset by Jahon Qurbonov in his first bout.

Middleweight

In 2009, he dropped down to middleweight and won the gold at the

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. At the

2010 Asian Games The 2010 Asian Games (), officially known as the XVI Asian Games () and also known as Guangzhou 2010 (), was a regional multi-sport event celebrated from November 12 to November 27, 2010 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, although several events ...

, he was shut out 0-7 in the final against Vijender Singh of India. At the

2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships The 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships was held at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex in Baku, Azerbaijan from September 22 to October 10, 2011. The competition ran under the supervision of the world's governing body for amateur ...

, he was knocked out in the first round by Ryōta Murata of Japan. At the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, he defeated Moroccan

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11:9, Romanian

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12:10 and Vijender Singh 17:13. He lost to Ryōta Murata 12:13 in the semi-final and had to settle for bronze.

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Living people Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Uzbekistan 1986 births Uzbeks Asian Games medalists in boxing Olympic bronze medalists for Uzbekistan Olympic medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Uzbekistani male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Asian Games silver medalists for Uzbekistan Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Middleweight boxers {{Uzbekistan-boxing-bio-stub