- Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan
Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan ( _mn. Энхбатын Бадар-Ууган; born June 3, 1985) is an amateur boxer from
Mongolia who won silver in the Bantamweight (-54 kg) division at the 2007 world championships. He won the gold medal in the bantamweight division in the2008 Olympics .Career
At the 2006 Asian Games winning the bronze medal in a lost bout against Korea's
Han Soon Chul 19-29-. [ [http://www.doha-2006.com/gis/SPORTS/BX/IGBXBoutResult.aspx?rscid=0-054-2-02-00002-2 Bantamweight semifinals results] ]At the world championships 2007 he beat Englishman
Joe Murray (boxer) 20-11 but lost in the finals toSergey Vodopyanov 14:16.In 2007, he won a gold medal at Asian Senior Boxing Championship, Ulaanbaatar.
Badar-Uugan fought for Mongolia at the
2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. American magazine "Sports Illustrated " picked him as the favorite to win Mongolia's first ever Olympic gold medal. [ [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/writers/brian_cazeneuve/07/29/medal.picks0804/index.html SI] ] , which, however, was won byNaidangiin Tüvshinbayar , who competed earlier in the games.World amateur championships results
2007
*DefeatedClive Atwell (Guyana) 25-8
*DefeatedVittorio Parrinello (Italy) 19-14
*DefeatedDavid Oltvanyi (Hungary) 17-5
*DefeatedHector Manzanilla (Venezuela) RSCI 3
*DefeatedJoe Murray (England) 20-11
*Lost toSergey Vodopyanov (Russia) 14-16Olympic games results
2008
*DefeatedOscar Valdez (Mexico) 15-4
*DefeatedJohn Joe Nevin (Ireland) 9-2
*DefeatedKhumiso Ikgopoleng (Botswana) 15-2
*DefeatedVeaceslav Gojan (Moldova) 15-2
*DefeatedYankiel Leon (Cuba) 16-5References
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