Bahodirjon Sooltonov (Баходирджон Султанов; born January 15, 1985 in

Andijan Andijan (sometimes spelled Andijon or Andizhan in English) ( uz, Andijon / Андижон / ئەندىجان; fa, اندیجان, ''Andijân/Andīǰān''; russian: Андижан, ''Andižan'') is a city in Uzbekistan. It is the administrative, ...

) is an

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...

boxer Boxer most commonly refers to: * Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing *Boxer (dog), a breed of dog Boxer or boxers may also refer to: Animal kingdom * Boxer crab * Boxer shrimp, a small group of decapod crustaceans * Boxer snipe ee ...

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 mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class is derived from Ba ...

(54 kg) division 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), ...

and won the bronze medal.

Career

At bantamweight he won bronze 2003 losing to Gennadi Kovalev. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the

2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships The 22nd edition of the Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships were held from January 11 to January 18, 2004 in Puerto Princesa Coliseum, Puerto Princesa, Philippines. The tournament served as a qualification event for the 2004 Summer Olympics ...

Puerto Princesa Puerto Princesa, officially the City of Puerto Princesa (Cuyonon: ''Siyudad i'ang Puerto Princesa''; fil, Lungsod ng Puerto Princesa), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Mimaropa region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, ...

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. In the final he defeated Kyrgyzstan's

Aybek Abdymomunov Aybek Abdymomunov (born December 20, 1985) is a male amateur boxer from Kyrgyzstan. He qualified to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the bantamweight division (– 54 kg)where he lost in the first round to Pakistan's Mehrullah Lassi ...

. Sooltonov won the gold medal at featherweight at the

2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

in Doha beating Olympic silver medalist Kim Song Guk in the semifinal and

Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig ( mn, Зоригтбаатарын Энхзориг; February 27, 1987 – November 4, 2018) was an amateur boxer from Mongolia who competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the Featherweight (-57 kg) division, b ...

. At the world championships 2007 he lost to eventual Russian winner

Albert Selimov Albert Shevketovich Selimov (; born 5 April 1986) is a Russian former amateur boxer of Lezgin descent. He is best known for being the only man to defeat Vasiliy Lomachenko in the amateur ranks. Competing for Russia he won the 2007 world title, ...

and didn't medal.

Olympic Results 2004

2004 (as a bantamweight) *1st round bye *Defeated

Andrzej Liczik Andrzej Liczik (born 4 March 1977 in Feodosiya, Krym, Ukraine) is a boxer from Poland. He participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native country. There he was stopped in the second round of the Bantamweight (54 kg) division by Uzbekis ...

(Poland) RSC 2 (1:28) *Defeated

Andrew Kooner Andrew Singh Kooner (born 11 May 1979 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England) is a Canadian boxer and trainer, currently living in Toronto. Amateur career Andrew Kooner moved to Tecumseh, Ontario at a young age and began boxing at age 13 out o ...

(Canada) 44–32 *Lost to

Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz 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 an ...

(Cuba) 13–27, southpaw Rigondeaux scored a knockdown

Olympic Results 2008

*Defeated

Anthresh Lalit Lakra Anthresh Lalit Lakra (born 22 October 1983) is an Indian boxer who fought at the 2008 Summer Olympics as a featherweight. Career He won the Commonwealth Championships 2005 against Stephen Smith. He missed the Commonwealth Games and the Asia ...

(India) 9–5 *Lost to Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine) 1–13

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a bantamweight) *Defeated

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(Turkey) RSCO 2 *Defeated Waldemar Cucereanu (Romania) 21–10 *Defeated

Han Sung-Moon Han may refer to: Ethnic groups * Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group. ** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese ...

(South Korea) 37–19 *Lost to Gennady Kovalev (Russia) 15–21 (placed third) 2005 (as a bantamweight) *Defeated

Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov Mirzhan Beybutovich Rakhimzhanov ( kk, Миржан Бейбутович Рахимжанов; born August 18, 1983, in East Kazakhstan Province) is a boxer from Kazakhstan. He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens ...

(Kazakhstan) 26–18 *Defeated

Zsolt Bedak Zsolt () is a Hungarian masculine given name, originally a variant of ''Solt''. Related names * Zsolt: old Hungarian personal name, with an identical origin to the names ''Zoltán'', ''Zsolt'' and possibly ''Csolt''. Derived from the old Turkish w ...

(Hungary) 41–23 *Defeated Kim Won-Guk (North Korea) 36–19 *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 and ...

(Cuba) RSCO 2007 (as a featherweight) *Defeated Jesús Cuéllar (Argentina) 31–13 *Defeated

Han Song-Ryong Han Song-ryong ( ko, 한성룡, 1923 - 2009)北前경제비서 ...

(North Korea) 31–8 *Lost to

(Russia) 9–24

External links

2003 world results

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