Zhang Xiaoping ( zh, s=张小平, t=張小平, p=Zhāng Xiǎopíng; born April 1, 1982, in

Xilinhot Xilinhot ( Mongolian: ; zh, s=锡林浩特市) is a county-level city that serves as the seat of government for the Xilingol League in Inner Mongolia, China. In 2010, it has a jurisdiction area of and a population of 245,886; 149,000 people li ...

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

) is a Chinese

amateur An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ...

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Mongol Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia and other 11 autonomous territories), as well as the republics of Buryatia and Kalmykia in Russia. The Mongols are the principal member of the large family of M ...

ethnicity who won a gold medal as a

light heavyweight Light heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the division is above and up to , falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight. The light heavyweight class has ...

in the

2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

Career

He won two matches at the world championships 2007 including an upset over Germany's world military champion Gottlieb Weiss but lost to veteran Yerkabulan Shinaliev and fell one win short of direct qualification. At the qualifier he beat Mehdi Ghorbani and Dinesh Kumar, a loss to

Jahon Qurbonov Jahon Qurbonov (Russian: Dzhakhon Kurbanov; born 12 February 1986, in Leninabad, now Khujand) is an amateur boxer from Tajikistan, who competed in the 2006 Asian Games in the Light Heavyweight (-81 kg) division. There he beat Mehdi Ghorbani i ...

was meaningless. In the final of the

he beat Kenneth Egan of Ireland to win the gold medal. The final match was controversial in that the judges failed to record multiple points for Egan, the NBC announcers concurred on this point.

Beijing Olympic games results

2008 (as a Light heavyweight) *Defeated

Mourad Sahraoui Mourad Sahraoui () (born January 12, 1983) is an amateur boxer from Tunisia best known for winning Gold in the heavyweight division at the 2007 All-African Games. Career Sahraoui failed to qualify for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in third ...

(Tunisia) 3–1 *Defeated Artur Beterbiyev (Russia) 8–2 *Defeated

Abdelhafid Benchabla Abdelhafid Benchabla (; born 26 September 1986, in Zemmouri) is an Algerian amateur boxer. He represented Algeria at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics and is the current World Series of Boxing Light heavyweight champion. Career At the Arab ...

(Algeria) 12–7 *Defeated

Yerkebulan Shynaliyev Yerkebulan Shynaliyev (born October 7, 1987) is an amateur boxer from Kazakhstan best known for winning bronze medals at light heavyweight at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships and at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Career Shynaliyev won silv ...

(Kazakhstan) 4–4 *Defeated Kenneth Egan (Ireland) 11–7

World amateur championships results

2007 (as a Light heavyweight) *Defeated Jasveer Singh (India) 17–3 *Defeated Gottlieb Weiss (Germany) 17–13 *Lost to

(Kazakhstan) 5–14

References

World 2007
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