- Gennady Kovalev
Gennady Gennadiyevich Kovalev ( _ru. Геннадий Геннадиевич Ковалёв) (born
17 May 1983 inKropotkin, Krasnodar Krai ) is a boxer fromRussia .Career
Southpaw Kovalev won the silver medal at the
2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships defeatingBahodirjon Sooltonov but losing toAghasi Mammadov at bantam, and a gold medal at the2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships .He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native country. There he was beaten in the quarterfinals of the Bantamweight (54 kg) division by Cuba's eventual winner
Guillermo Rigondeaux .Now at junior welterweight he won the Russian Championships 2007 against legend
Alexander Maletin 37:21.At the World championships he beatBradley Saunders to reach the finals but lost to defending Kazakh championSerik Sapiyev 5:20.World amateur championships results
2003 (as a bantamweight)
*DefeatedBerik Serikbayev (Kazakhstan) 21-6
*DefeatedZsolt Bedak (Hungary) 43-20
*DefeatedKhavazi Khatsygov (Bulgaria) 25-14
*DefeatedBahodirjon Sultanov (Uzbekistan) 21-15
*Lost toAgassi Mamedov (Azerbaijan) 8-172007 (as a Light welterweight)
*DefeatedAndrey Tsiruk (Belarus) 33-11
*DefeatedMarufjon Fayzuloyev (Tajikistan) 24-10
*DefeatedGyula Kate (Hungary) 22-9
*DefeatedBoris Georgiev (Bulgaria) walk-over
*DefeatedBradley Saunders (England) 16-8
*Lost toSerik Sapiyev (Kazakhstan) 5-20Olympic results
2004 (as a bantamweight)
*1st round bye
*DefeatedMalik Bouziane (Algeria) 23-20
*Lost toGuillermo Rigondeaux (Cuba) 5-202008 (as a Light welterweight)
*DefeatedMaimaitituersun Qiong (China) 15-8External links
* [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/rus/Gennady+Kovalev/386210 Yahoo! Sports]
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