- Chang Kyou-Chul
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Medal record Men's boxing Competitor for South Korea Olympic Games Bronze 1968 Mexico Bantamweight Asian Amateur Championships Gold Seoul 1965 Flyweight Gold Colombo 1967 Bantamweight Chang Kyou-Chul (Hangul: 장규철, Hanja: 張奎喆; born Chang Sun-Gil) (June 19, 1946 – April 19, 2000) was an Olympic boxing bronze medalist from South Korea.
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Amateur career
Chang won Asian Championship gold medals in flyweight in 1965 and in bantamweight in 1967.
He won the bronze medal in the bantamweight category at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Chang defeated 1967 European Championship bronze medalist Nikola Savov in the round of 16 and 1959 European Champion Horst Rascher in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Chang faced Eridadi Mukwanga of Uganda and knocked him down in the second round but lost by a split decision.
Results
1968 Olympic Games Event Round Result Opponent Score Bantamweight First Win Mario Mendoza 5-0 Second Win Wang Chee-Yen 3-2 Third Win Nikola Savov RSC 3 Quarterfinal Win Horst Rascher 5-0 Semifinal Loss Eridadi Mukwanga 1-4 Pro career
Chang turned pro in 1970 but had limited success.
In his third pro bout, Chang received his first loss after facing future two-time World Champion Hong Soo-Hwan. In 1971 however, he captured the OPBF Super Bantamweight title with a win over Koichi Okada. In 1973, Chang faced off against WBA Bantamweight World Champion Romeo Anaya in a non-title bout in Tijuana, Mexico but was knocked out in the 8th round. He lost the OPBF champion belt in 1974 to future WBC Super Bantamweight Champion Yum Dong-Kyun and retired later that year.
External links
- Professional boxing record for Chang Kyou-Chul from BoxRec
Categories:- 1946 births
- 2000 deaths
- South Korean boxers
- Bantamweight boxers
- Super-bantamweight boxers
- Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea
- Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of South Korea
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- South Korean Olympic medalist stubs
- Asian boxing biography stubs
- South Korean sportspeople stubs
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