Bahodirjon Sooltonov
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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 co ...
i boxer 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 ...
(54 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics 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 ...
in Puerto Princesa,
Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...
. 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 Lass ...
. 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. At the world championships 2007 he lost to eventual Russian winner Albert Selimov 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 Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, cov ...
(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 ...
(Canada) 44–32 *Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (Cuba) 13–27, southpaw Rigondeaux scored a knockdown


Olympic Results 2008

*Defeated Anthresh Lalit Lakra (India) 9–5 *Lost to
Vasyl Lomachenko Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko ( uk, Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко, ; also spelled Vasiliy; born 17 February 1988) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in three weight classes f ...
(Ukraine) 1–13


World amateur championships results

2003 (as a bantamweight) *Defeated Ibrahim Aydogan (Turkey) RSCO 2 *Defeated
Waldemar Cucereanu Waldemar, Valdemar or Woldemar is an Old High German given name. It consists of the elements ''wald-'' "power", "brightness" and ''-mar'' "fame". The name is considered the equivalent of the Slavic name Vladimir, Volodymyr, Uladzimir or Wło ...
(Romania) 21–10 *Defeated Han Sung-Moon (South Korea) 37–19 *Lost to
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 ...
(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 Ath ...
(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 a ...
(Cuba) RSCO 2007 (as a featherweight) *Defeated Jesús Cuéllar (Argentina) 31–13 *Defeated Han Song-Ryong (North Korea) 31–8 *Lost to Albert Selimov (Russia) 9–24


External links


2003 world results


1985 births Living people People from Andijan Bantamweight boxers Olympic boxers of Uzbekistan Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Uzbekistan Olympic medalists in boxing Asian Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Uzbekistani male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Asian Games gold medalists for Uzbekistan {{Uzbekistan-Olympic-medalist-stub Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games