Oleksandr Usyk

Oleksandr Usyk

Personal information
Full name	Олександр Усик
Nationality	Ukraine
Born	January 17, 1987 (1987-01-17) (age 24) Simferopol, Krym
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	91 kilograms (200 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Rated at	Heavyweight
Club	Ukraina Simferopol
Medal record World Amateur Championships Gold 2011 Baku Heavyweight Bronze 2009 Milan Heavyweight European Amateur Championships Bronze 2006 Plovdiv Middleweight Gold 2008 Liverpool Lightheavyweight

Oleksandr Usyk or Aleksandr Usik (Ukrainian: Олександр Усик) (born January 17, 1987) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer who won gold medal at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships.

Career

At the 2006 European Championships he won his first three matches against little-known opponents, in the semi-final he was outclassed by Russian Matvey Korobov. He then moved up to light-heavyweight later and won the Strandya Cup in 2008.

In February 2008, he again moved up another weightclass and was sent to the Olympic qualifier in Roseto degli Abruzzi replacing European Champion Denys Poyatsyka. There he defeated world class Elchin Alizade and Daniel Price.^[1]

At Beijing he easily beat world class local Yushan Nijiati (23:4) but ran into world champion Clemente Russo and lost (4:7).

He dropped down to light-heavy and captured the European Championships 2008.

References

1. ^ "Medallists by weight category". AIBA. http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/Events/European%20CHs%202008/2008%20Euro%20CH%20Medallists.pdf. Retrieved November 16, 2008. 

External links

• 2006 European Championships Results
• Olympic qualifier
• AIBA results for Olympic qualification.

Persondata
Name	Usyk, Oleksandr
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Date of birth	1987-01-17
Place of birth	Simferopol, Krym
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