Serik Kerimbekuly Konakbaev ( kk, Серік Керімбекұлы Қонақбаев, ''Serık Kerımbekūly Qonaqbaev''; russian: Серик Керимбекович Конакбаев; born October 25, 1959 in
Pavlodar,
Kazakh SSR) is a retired
Kazakh
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amateur
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, who represented the
USSR at the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
in
Moscow,
Soviet Union. There he won the silver medal in the
light welterweight
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Boxing Professional boxing
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division (– 63.5 kg), after being defeated in the final by
Patrizio Oliva of
Italy. Two years later he once again captured the silver medal, this time at the
World Championships in
Munich,
West Germany.
Olympics
1980 Olympic results
* Defeated
Simion Cuţov (Romania) by unanimous decision, 5–0
* Defeated
Imre Bácskai
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...
(Hungary) RET 2
* Defeated
José Angel Molina (Puerto Rico) by walkover
* Defeated
José Aguilar (Cuba) by majority decision, 4–1
* Lost to
Patrizio Oliva (Italy) by majority decision, 1–4
1984 Olympics
Konakbayev came to attention of
Howard Cosell, and after the Soviet Olympic authorities announced the USSR team wouldn't show up at the
1984 Los Angeles Olympics
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, where Konakbayev had genuine chances to compete for the gold medal at the
welterweight event of the Games, Cosell said:
Howard Cosell on the 1984 Summer Olympics boxing
References
External links
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Article
by Kyle McLachlan (''Bad Left Hook'', February 15, 2015).
Living people
Soviet male boxers
Light-welterweight boxers
Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for the Soviet Union
Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
1959 births
Olympic medalists in boxing
Members of the Mazhilis
Kazakhstani male boxers
Sportspeople from Pavlodar
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Sportsperson-politicians
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