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Boxing At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Welterweight
The welterweight boxing competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held from 15 to 29 August at Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. This is limited to those boxers weighing between 64 and 69 kilograms. Competition format Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. This event consisted of 28 boxers who have qualified for the competition through various tournaments held in 2003 and 2004. The competition began with a preliminary round on 15 August, where the number of competitors was reduced to 16, and concluded with the final on 29 August. As there were fewer than 32 boxers in the competition, a number of boxers received a bye through the preliminary round. Both semi-final losers were awarded bronze medals. All bouts consisted of four rounds of two minutes each, with one-minute breaks between rounds. Punches scored only if the white area on the front of the glove made full contact with the front of the head or torso of the opp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall
The Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall is an list of indoor arenas, indoor arena that is located in Peristeri, west Athens. The hall was the site of the Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics, boxing events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The venue originally seated 8,400, though it had a public capacity of only 5,600 for the 2004 Olympics. History After the 2004 Summer Olympics, the indoor facility was partially converted into a 3,000 seat outdoor football pitch. This lowered the seating capacity of the indoor arena from 8,400 to 2,305. The indoor arena has since been mainly used for gymnastics competitions, and at times to host basketball games of the Greek club Peristeri BC, Peristeri. Since the summer of 2007, the outdoor association football pitch has been used as a training center by the Greek club Atromitos F.C., Atromitos. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanes Martirosyan
Vanes Norikovich Martirosyan ( ; born May 1, 1986) is an Armenian-American former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2018. He challenged twice for a light middleweight world title in 2013 and 2016, and once for unified middleweight world titles in 2018. Early life Vanes was born on May 1, 1986, in Abovyan, Armenia. Vanes' father, Norik Martirosyan, was an amateur boxer in Armenia who worked for an industrial company and was also in the army. Vanes has two brothers, one older and one younger, and a sister. His family moved to Glendale, California when he was four years old. He started boxing when he was seven after his father found out there was a gym in Glendale. Martirosyan was taken out of junior high school by his father and became home-schooled once it had become clear that he needed to keep his son's fighting confined to the ring. Amateur career Martirosyan was an eight-time National Champion and a Golden Gloves Champion. In 2004, after winning a match against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ait Hammi Miloud
Ait Hammi Miloud (born July 8, 1978 in Rabat, Morocco) is a Moroccan Olympic boxer. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Boxing career Hammi Miloud qualified for the Athens Games by winning the silver medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event he lost to the Algerian fighter Benamar Meskine. In 2004, he shared the bronze medal at the 48th World Military Boxing Championship in the 69 kg. weight class, behind gold medal winner Boyd Melson of the US, and silver medal winner Elshod Rasulov of Uzbekistan, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. He was a member of the team that competed for Africa at the 2005 Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed Hikal
Mohamed Hikal (born 10 January 1979) is an Egyptian boxer. He won the bronze medal in the men's middleweight division (75 kg) at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He competed in four Olympic Games from 2000-2012. Career Hikal won the gold medal in the welterweight division at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria. He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was defeated in the second round of the welterweight (69 kg) division by Russia's eventual bronze medalist Oleg Saitov. Hikal subsequently moved up to middleweight, and later managed to upset defending world champion Gennady Golovkin and win the bronze medal in the middleweight (75 kg) division at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships. At the 2008 Olympics, he lost his first bout to Britain's James DeGale. At the 2012 Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basharmal Sultani
Basharmal Sultani (born January 28, 1985) is an Afghan Olympic athlete, who competed in boxing in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was invited to participate by the . He lost his first round bout in the welterweight category to of on points, 40–12. See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherzod Husanov
Sherzod Husanov (born 27 January 1980) is a boxer from Uzbekistan who won medals at the 2001 and 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships and participated in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. Amateurs At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Husanov lost in his second bout, to eventual bronze medal winner Vitalie Gruşac of Moldova. At both the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, he lost to winner Lorenzo Aragon, winning bronze and silver, respectively, in the Welterweight division. He qualified for the 2004 Olympics in Athens by winning the silver medal at the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. In the final he was defeated by South Korea's Kim Jung-Joo. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he was beaten in the quarterfinals of the Welterweight (69 kg) division by Russia's two-time champion Oleg Saitov. Pro Husanov turned pro at light middleweight at 2007 and won 17 bouts, one draw but showed l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Carlos Prada
Jean Carlos Prada Pasedo (born August 4, 1984) is a male welterweight boxer from Venezuela, who represented his country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was defeated in the first round of the men's welterweight division (– 69 kg) by Uzbekistan's Sherzod Husanov on points: 20-33. He qualified for the Olympic Games by finishing in second place at the in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Bülent Ulusoy
Bülent Ulusoy (born January 7, 1978, in Trabzon) is a Turkish boxer best known to win the European title 2000 at welterweight. Career In 2000, Bulent Ulusoy won the Euro welterweight title. At the Olympics 2000 he lost the quarterfinal to Vitalie Gruşac. In 2001 he competed at the world championships at junior middleweight and beat Jean Pascal and lost to Marian Simion 19:20. Ulusoy qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in first place at the 4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. At the Olympics 2004 he lost in the men's welterweight division to Sherzod Husanov. He won the 2005 Mediterranean Games. At the European Championships 2006 he lost his first match against Russian favorite Andrey Balanov Andrey Vladimirovich Balanov () (born April 27, 1976 in Podolsk) is a former Russian boxing, boxer best known for winning the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships at welterweight, being part of the Russian 2005 team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellis Chibuye
Ellis Chibuye (born January 14, 1980) is a Zambian boxer. He was born in Ndola. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native African country. There he was stopped in the first round of the Welterweight (69 kg) division by Turkey's Bülent Ulusoy. Chibuye qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in second place at the 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana. In the final he was defeated by Uganda's Sadat Tebazaalwa. Chibuye won the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, .... References 1980 births Living people Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanati Silamu
Kanat Islam (; zh, s=哈那提 斯拉木, p=Hanati Silamu; born 13 September 1984) is a Chinese-born Kazakhstani professional boxer who currently lives and trains in Miami. As an amateur, he represented China, winning bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2007 World Championships and the 2006 Asian Games. Amateur career At the 2004 Olympics, he lost his match to Ruslan Khairov. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, China. In the final he defeated Aliasker Bashirov of Turkmenistan. At the Asian Games 2006, he beat Behzodek Yunusov in round one but lost to eventual southpaw winner Bakhyt Sarsekbayev in the semi-finals 30:37. At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, he beat Yusunov again, then upset old foes Ruslan Khairov and Bakhyt Sarsekbayev 20:14 but lost to Non Boonjumnong 20:23 in the semi-finals. Islam beat Zambian boxer, Precious Makina, in the Men's Welterweight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadat Tebazaalwa
Sadat Tebazaalwa (born October 23, 1985) is a Ugandan amateur boxer who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. There he was defeated in the first round of the welterweight () division by China's Kanat Islam. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana. In the final he defeated Zambia's Ellis Chibuye. In 2003, Tebazaalwa won the bronze medal in his weight division at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, .... ReferencesProfile 1985 births Olympic boxers for Uganda Living people Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Welterweight boxers Light-welterweight boxers Ugandan male boxers 21st-century Ugandan sportsmen African Games bron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Trupish
Adam Trupish (born February 8, 1979) is a Canadian welterweight (– 69 kg) division boxer. He is a two-time Olympian and was ranked 5th in the world (among welterweights) after the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships. 2004 Summer Olympics He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he was eliminated by technical knockout in the first round by Ruslan Khairov of Azerbaijan. Trupish qualified for the Athens Games as a lucky semifinal loser in the second tournament in Tijuana, Mexico. He took the place of Juan McPherson (USA), finalist from the 2003 Pan American Games. However his quota was dropped by the USA Boxing Association due to unsuccessful presentation at the USA Olympic trials. Winner of those trials Vanes Martirosyan qualified for the Qualifying Tournament in Tijuana. 2008 Summer Olympics Trupish was the only Canadian boxer (in any weight class) to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The CBC projected a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
