Aleksei Viktorovich Tishchenko (; born 29 May 1984) is a former

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n Olympic boxer best known for dominating the lower weight classes and winning numerous titles. He was regarded as "one of the best

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Olympic boxers in the world". He was born in

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Career

Tishchenko won the Featherweight Gold medal at the

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. He had qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by topping the

2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament The 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament was held in Warsaw, Poland from March 30 to April 4, 2004 at the annual Feliks Stamm Boxing Tournament. The top two in each weight category gained entry into the 2004 Summer Olympics T ...

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. Tishchenko also won the featherweight gold medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, China. In 2005 he was part of the

n team that won the 2005 Boxing World Cup. In 2006, he went up to lightweight and won the European title in Plovdiv the same year. As of 2007 he has been elected into the Omsk Regional Duma for

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. At the same year at the world championships he was upset by Englishman Frankie Gavin. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he benefitted from Gavin's absence and won the gold medal by defeating French boxer Daouda Sow in the final. On 11 February 2011 he announced about finishing his career.

Amateur results

2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece *Defeated Hadj Belkheir (Algeria) 37-17 *Defeated

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(Azerbaijan) RSC-3 (1:08) *Defeated Galib Jafarov (Kazakhstan) 40-22 *Defeated Jo Seok-Hwan (South Korea) 45-25 *Defeated Kim Song-Guk (North Korea) 39-17 2006 European Amateur Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria *Defeated Odiseas Saridis (Greece) RSC-2 *Defeated Samet Huseinov (Bulgaria) AB-2 *Defeated Oleksandr Klyuchko (Ukraine) 42:29 *Defeated

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(Armenia) 39:15 2007 World Amateur Championships in Chicago, United States *Defeated Kim Joung-Won (South Korea) 27-20 *Defeated Hüsnü Koçabas (Netherlands) RSC 3 (1:34) *Defeated Pichai Sayotha (Thailand) RSC 3 (1:40) *Lost to Frankie Gavin (England) 10-19 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China *Defeated Saifeddine Nejmaoui (Tunisia) 10-2 *Defeated Anthony Little (Australia) 11-3 *Defeated Darley Pérez (Colombia) 13-5 *Defeated

(Armenia) 10-5 *Defeated Daouda Sow (France) 11-9

Biography

In 2014-2017 Aleksei Tishchenko was a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Awards

* Order of Honour (August 2, 2009)

References

External links

Official site of Tischenko
* 1984 births Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Russia Olympic gold medalists for Russia Living people Martial artists from Omsk Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Russian male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Featherweight boxers 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-boxing-bio-stub