Bahodirjon Sooltonov (Баходирджон Султанов; born January 15, 1985, in

Andijan Andijan ( ), also spelt Andijon () and formerly romanized as Andizhan ( ), is a city in Uzbekistan. It is the administrative, economic, and cultural center of Andijan Region. Andijan is a district-level city with an area of . Andijan is the most ...

) is an

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who competed in the

bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports and weightlifting. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class ...

(54 kg) division at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

and won the bronze medal.

Career

At bantamweight he won bronze 2003 losing to Russia's 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 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships, Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships were held from January 11 to January 18, 2004 in sports, 2004 in Puerto Princesa Coliseum, Puerto Princesa, Philippines. The tournament served as ...

Puerto Princesa Puerto Princesa (, American Spanish: , European Spanish: ), officially the City of Puerto Princesa (Cuyonon language, Cuyonon: ''Siyudad i'ang Puerto Princesa''; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in th ...

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. 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 Lassi ...

. Sooltonov won the gold medal at featherweight at the

2006 Asian Games The 2006 Asian Games (), officially known as the XV Asiad or 15th Asian Games (, and commonly known as Doha 2006 (), were an Asian multi-sport event held in Doha, Qatar, from December 1 to 15, 2006, with 424 events in 39 sports featured in the ga ...

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 Albert Shevketovich Selimov (; born 5 April 1986) is a Russian former amateur boxer of Lezgin descent. He is best known for being the only man to defeat Vasiliy Lomachenko in the amateur ranks. Competing for Russia, he won the 2007 world title ...

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, Crimea, Soviet Union) is a Boxing, boxer of Poland, Polish nationality. He participated at the Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics for Poland. There he was stopped in the secon ...

(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 Vasiliy Anatolyevich Lomachenko (also spelled Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko; , ; born 17 February 1988) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed between 2013 and 2024. He has held multiple world championships in three weight class ...

(Ukraine) 1–13

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a bantamweight) *Defeated Ibrahim Aydogan (Turkey) RSCO 2 *Defeated Waldemar Cucereanu (Romania) 21–10 *Defeated Han Sung-Moon (South Korea) 37–19 *Lost to Gennady Kovalev (Russia) 15–21 (placed third) 2005 (as a bantamweight) *Defeated

Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov Mirzhan Beybutovich Rakhimzhanov (; born August 18, 1983, in East Kazakhstan Oblast (now East Kazakhstan Province)) is a boxer from Kazakhstan. He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he was stoppe ...

(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. Who held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and '' Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 and 2017, and the WBA (Regular) bantamweight title fro ...

(Cuba) RSCO 2007 (as a featherweight) *Defeated Jesús Cuéllar (Argentina) 31–13 *Defeated Han Song-Ryong (North Korea) 31–8 *Lost to

(Russia) 9–24

External links

2003 world results

1985 births Living people Sportspeople from Andijan Bantamweight boxers Olympic boxers for 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