Sergey Kazakov (born July 8, 1976) is a Russian amateur boxer best known to win the World Championships 2003 and European Championships

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and

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in the Men's Light Flyweight. Kazakov won the European Championships in 1998. In 2000 he lost at the European Championships to

Valeriy Sydorenko Valeriy Petrovych Sydorenko (born 23 September 1976) is a Ukrainian former amateur boxer. He competed for his native country at the 2000 Olympics and later won the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships. He is the twin brother of Volodymyr S ...

in the finals and at the Olympics 2000 against reigning world champ

Brian Viloria Brian Viloria (born November 24, 1980) is a retired American professional boxer of Filipino descent. He is a former unified WBA and WBO flyweight champion, as well as a former WBC and IBF light flyweight champion. His nickname of "The Hawaii ...

(6:8) in the first round. In 2003 he won the World Championships with a close final victory against future star

Zou Shiming Zou Shiming (; born 18 May 1981) is a Chinese former professional boxer who competed from 2013 to 2017 and held the WBO flyweight title from 2016 to 2017. As an amateur, Zou is China's most successful boxer of all time. In the light-flyweight ...

(23:19). He added a victory at the European championships 2002 and 2004 by beating

Alfonso Pinto Alfonso Pinto (born 4 October 1978) is an Italian former amateur boxer. He won silver medals at the European Championships in 2004 and 2006, both at light flyweight. Career Pinto won the silver medal at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Champion ...

. 2004 at the Olympics he was upset by young Turk Atagün Yalçınkaya and had to settle for bronze. 2005 at the world championships he again lost to a teenager in Hungary's

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. In 2005 he was part of the

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n team that won the

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. 2007 he lost at the Russian Championships against David Ayrapetyan 9:25.

Results

Olympic Games

2000 (Sydney, as a Light flyweight) *Lost to

(United States) 6-8 2004 (Athens, as a Light flyweight) *Defeated

Patricio Calero Patricio Calero (born July 20, 1977, in El Empalme, Guayas) is a boxer from Ecuador, who represented his native country in the Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg) category at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he was s ...

(Ecuador) 20-8 *Defeated

Raúl Castañeda Raúl Castañeda (September 20, 1982 – September 6, 2017) was a boxer from Mexico, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native country. There he was stopped in the second round of the Light flyweight (48 kg) division by R ...

(Mexico) 41-16 *Defeated

Joseph Jermia Joseph Hilongwa Jermia (born September 18, 1981) is a boxer from Namibia, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native African country. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the light flyweight (48 kg) division by Russia ...

(Namibia) 18-11 *Lost to Atagün Yalçınkaya (Turkey) 20-26

World Championships

2003 (Bangkok, as a Light flyweight) *Defeated Mohamed Ali Qamar (India) 18-5 *Defeated

Suban Pannon Suban Pannon ( th, สุบรรณ พันโนน; ; born May 10, 1978 in Khon Kaen) is a Thai amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games. Career Pannon won the 1998 Asian Games in the men's light flyweight division. He cl ...

(Thailand) 37-24 *Defeated

Noman Karim Nauman Karim is a boxer from Pakistan. He won the bronze medal in the light flyweight (– 48 kg) division at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok. He also competed at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships The ...

(Pakistan) 23-4 *Defeated

(PR China) 23-19 2005 (Mianyang, as a Light flyweight) *Defeated

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(England) 23-12 *Lost to

Pál Bedák Pál Bedák (born September 8, 1985 in Budapest) is a boxer from Hungary best known to win the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships. His older brother Zsolt Bedák is a bantamweight boxer. At his international debut Bedák won the Eur ...

(Hungary) 16-24

European Championships

1998 (Minsk, as a Light flyweight) *Defeated Ruslan Bespalov (Belarus) 11-3 *Defeated

Marian Velicu Marian Velicu (born July 4, 1977 in Comana, Giurgiu) is a boxer from Romania, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg) division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland. A year later ...

(Romania) 4-2 *Defeated

Oleg Kiryukhin Oleh Stanislavovych Kiryukhin ( uk, Кирюхін Олег Станіславович; born January 1, 1975, in Mariupol) is a Ukrainian boxer, who won the light flyweight bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Olympic results *Defeated Ab ...

(Ukraine) 7-5 *Defeated Ivanas Stapovičius (Lithuania) 4-0

World Cup

2005 (Moscow, as a Light flyweight) *Defeated Anton Bekesh (Belarus) 35-11 *Defeated Vincent Montoya (United States) RSC-2 *Lost to Yan Bartelemí (Cuba) 14-26

References

External links

Russian Championships 2007

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