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

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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 in the finals and at the Olympics 2000 against reigning world champ Brian Viloria (6:8) in the first round. In 2003 he won the World Championships with a close final victory against future star

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(23:19). He added a victory at the European championships 2002 and 2004 by beating Alfonso Pinto. 2004 at the Olympics he was upset by young Turk

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and had to settle for bronze. 2005 at the world championships he again lost to a teenager in Hungary's Pal Bedak. In 2005 he was part of the

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. 2007 he lost at the Russian Championships against David Ayrapetyan 9:25. Kazakov ended his career in 2008 at the age of 32.

Results

Olympic Games

2000 (Sydney, as a Light flyweight) *Lost to Brian Viloria (United States) 6-8 2004 (Athens, as a Light flyweight) *Defeated Patricio Calero (Ecuador) 20-8 *Defeated

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(Mexico) 41-16 *Defeated Joseph Jermia (Namibia) 18-11 *Lost to

(Turkey) 20-26

World Championships

2003 (Bangkok, as a Light flyweight) *Defeated Mohamed Ali Qamar (India) 18-5 *Defeated Suban Pannon (Thailand) 37-24 *Defeated Noman Karim (Pakistan) 23-4 *Defeated

(PR China) 23-19 2005 (Mianyang, as a Light flyweight) *Defeated Darren Langley (England) 23-12 *Lost to

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(Hungary) 16-24

European Championships

1998 (Minsk, as a Light flyweight) *Defeated Ruslan Bespalov (Belarus) 11-3 *Defeated Marian Velicu (Romania) 4-2 *Defeated Oleg Kiryukhin (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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