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

Andijan Andijan (sometimes spelled Andijon or Andizhan in English) ( uz, Andijon / Андижон / ئەندىجان; fa, اندیجان, ''Andijân/Andīǰān''; russian: Андижан, ''Andižan'') is a city in Uzbekistan. It is the administrative, ...

) is an

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i boxer who competed in the

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(54 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics 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 The 22nd edition of the Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships were held from January 11 to January 18, 2004 in Puerto Princesa Coliseum, Puerto Princesa, Philippines. The tournament served as a qualification event for the 2004 Summer Olympic ...

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. In the final he defeated Kyrgyzstan's Aybek Abdymomunov. Sooltonov won the gold medal at featherweight at the

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in Doha beating Olympic silver medalist Kim Song Guk in the semifinal and

Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig ( mn, Зоригтбаатарын Энхзориг; February 27, 1987 – November 4, 2018) was an amateur boxer from Mongolia who competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the Featherweight (-57 kg) division, ...

. 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 Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born 30 September 1980) is a Cuban professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and '' Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 ...

(Cuba) 13–27, southpaw Rigondeaux scored a knockdown

Olympic Results 2008

*Defeated

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(India) 9–5 *Lost to

Vasyl Lomachenko Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko ( uk, Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко, ; also spelled Vasiliy; born 17 February 1988) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in three weight classes f ...

(Ukraine) 1–13

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a bantamweight) *Defeated

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(Turkey) RSCO 2 *Defeated Waldemar Cucereanu (Romania) 21–10 *Defeated

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(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 Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born 30 September 1980) is a Cuban professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and '' Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 ...

(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

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