Bahodirjon Sooltonov (Баходирджон Султанов; born January 15, 1985 in
Andijan) is an
Uzbekistani
boxer who competed in the
bantamweight (54 kg) division at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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and won the bronze medal.
Career
At bantamweight he won bronze 2003 losing to Gennadi Kovalev. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the
2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships
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in
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Philippines. In the final he defeated Kyrgyzstan's
Aybek Abdymomunov.
Sooltonov won the gold medal at featherweight at the
2006 Asian Games
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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 and didn't medal.
Olympic Results 2004
2004 (as a bantamweight)
*1st round bye
*Defeated
Andrzej Liczik (Poland) RSC 2 (1:28)
*Defeated
Andrew Kooner (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 (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 (Kazakhstan) 26–18
*Defeated
Zsolt Bedak (Hungary) 41–23
*Defeated
Kim Won-Guk (North Korea) 36–19
*Lost to
Guillermo Rigondeaux (Cuba) RSCO
2007 (as a featherweight)
*Defeated
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(Argentina) 31–13
*Defeated
Han Song-Ryong (North Korea) 31–8
*Lost to
Albert Selimov (Russia) 9–24
External links
2003 world results
1985 births
Living people
People from Andijan
Bantamweight boxers
Olympic boxers of 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
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Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games