- Oleg Saitov
-
Oleg Saitov Personal information Full name Олег Элекпаевич Саитов Nationality Russia
Born May 26, 1974
Novokuybyshevsk, Samara OblastHeight 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Weight 69 kilograms (150 lb) Sport Sport Boxing Rated at Welterweight Club Trade Union Sports Club, Zhigulevsk Medal recordOlympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta Welterweight Gold 2000 Sydney Welterweight Bronze 2004 Athens Welterweight World Amateur Championships Bronze 1993 Tampere Light Welterweight Silver 1995 Berlin Welterweight Gold 1997 Budapest Welterweight European Amateur Championships Bronze 1996 Vejle Welterweight Gold 1998 Minsk Welterweight Gold 2004 Pula Welterweight Oleg Elekpayevich Saitov (Russian: Оле́г Элекпа́евич Саи́тов; ( born May 26, 1974 in Novokuybyshevsk, Russian SFSR) is a Russian boxer. He studied journalism in Ryazan, a city of approximately one million people south of Moscow.
He won the Olympic gold medal at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics in the welterweight division, and bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. He was the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for Outstanding Boxer at the 2000 Olympic Games. In 2004 he won the title at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia.
Olympic results
1996 Olympic Results
- Round of 32:Defeated Cahit Sume of Turkey - PTS (11-1)
- Round of 16:Defeated Ho-Jo Bae of South Korea -PTS (9-5)
- Quarterfinal:Defeated Kamel Chater of Tunisia - PTS (9-3)
- Semifinal:Defeated Daniel Santos of Puerto Rico - PTS (13-11)
- Final:Defeated Juan Hernandez Sierra of Cuba - PTS (14-9)
2000 Olympic Results
- Round of 16:Defeated Francisco Calderon of Colombia - PTS (15-1)
- Quarterfinal:Defeated Ruslan Khairov of Azerbaijan - PTS (10-10; 55-47)
- Semifinal:Defeated Dorel Simion of Romania - PTS (19-10)
- Final:Defeated Sergey Dotshenko of Ukraine- PTS (24-16)
2004 Olympic Results
- Round of 32:Defeated Miloud Ant Hammi of Morocco - PTS (30-15)
- Round of 16:Defeated Mohamed Hikal of Egypt - PTS (18-17)
- Quarterfinal:Defeated Sherzod Husanov of Uzbekistan - PTS (22-14)
- Semifinal:Lost to Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan - PTS (18-20)
External links
- Profile: Oleg Saitov – from www.athens2004.com
Val Barker Trophy Winners Awarded to the outstanding and most stylistic boxer of each Olympic Games 1936: Louis Laurie
USA • 1948: George Hunter
RSA • 1952: Norvel Lee
USA • 1956: Richard McTaggart
GBR • 1960: Giovanni Benvenuti
ITA • 1964: Valeri Popenchenko
URS • 1968: Philip Waruinge
KEN • 1972: Teofilo Stevenson
CUB • 1976: Howard Davis, Jr.
USA • 1980: Patrizio Oliva
ITA • 1984: Paul Gonzales
USA • 1988: Roy Jones, Jr.
USA • 1992: Roberto Balado
CUB • 1996: Vassiliy Jirov
KAZ • 2000: Oleg Saitov
RUS • 2004: Bakhtiyar Artayev
KAZ • 2008: Vasyl Lomachenko
UKR
Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Welterweight 1904: 135-145 lb (61.2-65.8 kg), 1920 – 1936: 135-147 lb (61.2-66.7 kg), 1948: 62-67 kg, 1952 – 2000: 63.5-67 kg, 2004 – 2008: 64-69 kg 1904: Albert Young (USA) • 1920: Bert Schneider (CAN) • 1924: Jean Delarge (BEL) • 1928: Ted Morgan (NZL) • 1932: Edward Flynn (USA) • 1936: Sten Suvio (FIN) • 1948: Július Torma (TCH) • 1952: Zygmunt Chychła (POL) • 1956: Nicolae Linca (ROU) • 1960: Nino Benvenuti (ITA) • 1964: Marian Kasprzyk (POL) • 1968: Manfred Wolke (GDR) • 1972: Emilio Correa (CUB) • 1976: Jochen Bachfeld (GDR) • 1980: Andrés Aldama (CUB) • 1984: Mark Breland (USA) • 1988: Robert Wangila (KEN) • 1992: Michael Carruth (IRL) • 1996-2000: Oleg Saitov (RUS) • 2004: Bakhtiyar Artayev (KAZ) • 2008: Bakhyt Sarsekbayev (KAZ)
World Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Welterweight 1974 – 2001: up to 67 kg • 2003 – 2011: up to 69 kg 1974: Emilio Correa (CUB) · 1978: Valery Rachkov (URS) · 1982: Mark Breland (USA) · 1986: Kenneth Gould (USA) · 1989: Francisc Vaştag (ROM) · 1991: Juan Hernández Sierra (CUB) · 1993: Juan Hernández Sierra (CUB) · 1995: Juan Hernández Sierra (CUB) · 1997: Oleg Saitov (RUS) · 1999: Juan Hernández Sierra (CUB) · 2001: Lorenzo Aragón (CUB) · 2003: Lorenzo Aragón (CUB) · 2005: Erislandi Lara (CUB) · 2007: Demetrius Andrade (USA) · 2009: Jack Culcay-Keth (GER) · 2011: Taras Shelestyuk (UKR)
Categories:- 1974 births
- Living people
- People from Novokuybyshevsk
- Russian boxers
- Olympic boxers of Russia
- Olympic gold medalists for Russia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
- Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Russian Olympic medalist stubs
- Russian boxing biography stubs
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.