- Jaroslavas Jakšto
Jaroslavas Jakšto (born
7 August 1980 ) is an amateur boxer fromLithuania best known for winning super heavyweight bronze at the2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships inPula, Croatia . He was a 2004 Olympian and has qualified for the Olympics 2008.Career
Jakšto won a bronze medal in the same division at the
2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships inPula, Croatia .He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He beat there
Victor Bisbal 27-16 but was defeated in the second round of the Super heavyweight (+91 kg) division by Egypt's eventual runner-upMohamed Aly .He won the Chemiepokal Cup in Germany 2005 by beating
Michel López Núñez 17:12 and the Military world championships in 2006.At the World Championships 2007 he lost to
Vyacheslav Glazkov inside the distance.At the first Olympic qualifier he lost to
Kubrat Pulev , at the second qualifier he beatRobert Helenius andYousef Abdelghani to qualify.In Beijing he lost to David Price when he had to quit with a leg injury after the first round, he was trailing 1:3.External links
* [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/ltu/Jaroslav+Jaksto/9002587 Yahoo! Sports]
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