Aghasi Mammadov (born 1 June 1980) is an

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

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who competed in the

bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class is derived from bantam chickens. B ...

division (54 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.

Career

Mammadov competed for

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

for several years, under the name Ağasi Agagüloğlu, for instance at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

in Sydney.

Olympic results 2000 (as a bantamweight)

*Defeated Mai Kangde (China) 17-4 *Defeated

Nehomar Cermeño Nehomar Andrés Cermeño Febres (born June 7, 1979) is a Venezuelan professional boxer who held the WBA (Regular) super bantamweight title from 2016 to 2017. He also held the WBA interim titles at bantamweight and super bantamweight between 20 ...

(Venezuela) 11-3 *Lost to

Guillermo Rigondeaux Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born 30 September 1980) is a Cuban professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and '' Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 a ...

(Cuba) 5-14 He returned to Azerbaijan before the 2002 European Championships, and now competes for Azerbaijan. A year later, at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in

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, he won the world title in the Bantamweight Division in the finals against

Gennady Kovalev Gennady Gennadiyevich Kovalev (russian: Геннадий Геннадиевич Ковалёв; born 17 May 1983 in Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai) is a boxer from Russia. Career Southpaw Kovalev won the silver medal at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing ...

. In the second round he sensationally beat Cuban superstar

16:13 after losing to him in Sydney and Belfast. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in first place at the 4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in

Baku, Azerbaijan Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world an ...

Olympic results 2004 (as a bantamweight)

*Defeated Joel Brunker (Australia) RSC 3 (0:59) *Defeated Detelin Dalakliev (Bulgaria) 35-16 *Defeated Maksym Tretyak (Ukraine) 32-12 *Lost to

Worapoj Petchkoom Worapoj Petchkoom ( th, วรพจน์ เพชรขุ้ม; ; born May 18, 1981) is a Thai boxer who competed in the bantamweight (54 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal losing to Cuban superstar Guillermo Ri ...

(Thailand) 19-27

References

* 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Baku Azerbaijani male boxers Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Azerbaijan Olympic bronze medalists for Azerbaijan Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Turkey Turkish people of Azerbaijani descent Naturalized citizens of Turkey Olympic medalists in boxing Azerbaijani emigrants to Turkey Bantamweight boxers Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Turkish male boxers European champions for Turkey AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing {{Turkey-boxing-bio-stub