Peter Müllenberg (born 30 December 1987 in

Almelo Almelo () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie, and Bornerbroek. Almelo has about 72,000 inhabitants in the middle o ...

) is an amateur heavyweight boxer from the Netherlands who won silver medals at the 2013 and 2015 European championships.

Career

Müllenberg competed at world championships, including at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships (middleweight), 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships and 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships. He was also part of the Dutch team at the

2015 European Games The 1st European Games (), also known as the 2015 European Games or Baku 2015 (), were the inaugural edition of the European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes representing the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the Europe ...

in Baku. Müllenberg won the silver medal at both the 2013 European Amateur Boxing Championships and 2015 European Amateur Boxing Championships. At the 2016 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament in April 2016 he qualified for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

after beating Mehmet Ünal in the semi-final. He is the first Dutch boxer since 1992 who qualifies for the

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

. He was eliminated in the second bout at the Olympics. Although initially motivated to compete at the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

he later lost motivation and failed to qualify.

Personal life

Müllenberg has a son Noah with his ex-partner Essja. He has a son Eymen and another child with his wife Asiye, whom he married in 2017. Since August 2009 he served with the

Royal Netherlands Army The Royal Netherlands Army (, KL) is the Ground warfare, land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the was raised making the Dutch standing a ...

. As of 2019 he was no longer working for the army. Müllenberg converted to Islam around 2013. In 2019 Müllenberg was convicted of threathening his ex-partner and sentenced to sixty hours community service. On appeal in the same case in 2022 he was convicted of threatening his ex-partner, illegal possession of weapons and destroying furniture. His sentence was lowered to forty hours community service. In 2019 he survived two assassination attempts in which shots were fired at him.

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* * * * Sportspeople from Almelo European Games competitors for the Netherlands 1987 births Living people Dutch male boxers Boxers at the 2015 European Games Olympic boxers for the Netherlands Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2019 European Games Light-heavyweight boxers {{Netherlands-boxing-bio-stub