Denis Sergeyevich Sergeev or Denis Sergeyevich Sergeyev (Денис Сергеевич Сергеев; born March 21, 1982, in
Vladimir Oblast,
Russia) is a Russian
amateur boxer who won the silver medal at the
2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships
The Men's 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Liverpool, England in November 2008. They were the 37th edition of this biennial competition organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.
Medal winners
M ...
in the
super heavyweight
Super heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and competitive bodybuilding.
Boxing
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division.
Career
Sergeev won a bronze in the 2005 Super-heavyweight Russian senior national championships losing 29:14 to
Vladislav Vasilev and won a bronze again in 2006 losing to
Magomed Abdusalamov
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in the semi-final by 49:44. The following year in 2007 he won the title beating European champion
Islam Timurziev 22:19 in the final and followed the success up in 2008 beating
Shamil Gadzhiev to win the title.
In November 2007, Sergeev won the ''"Good Luck Beijing"'' International Boxing Tournament at the
Beijing Workers' Indoor Arena,
China
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, beating
Michael Hunter of the USA 21-18 in the final.
European Amateur Championships 2008
Sergeev represented Russia at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England. He won a silver medal after being defeated in the final 9:2 by Bulgarian
Kubrat Pulev.
2008 (as a Super heavyweight)
*Preliminary round Defeated
Andrew Wyn Jones
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*Quarter-finals Defeated
Mikhaili Sheibak (Belarus) 7-2
*Semi-finals Defeated
Memnun Hadzic (Bosnia) RTD3
*Finals Lost to
Kubrat Pulev (Bulgaria) 9-2
2009
At the
2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships
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he lost to
Viktar Zuyev
Viktor Valeryevich Zuyev, also spelled sometimes as Viktar Valeryevich Zuyeu ( be, Ві́ктар Вале́р'евіч Зу́еў, Viktar Valeryevich Zuyew, Łacinka: ''Viktar Valierjevič Zujeŭ''; russian: Ви́ктор Вале́рьеви ...
and didn't medal.
References
1982 births
Living people
Super-heavyweight boxers
Russian male boxers
Sportspeople from Vladimir Oblast
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