Gennady Kovalev

Gennady Kovalev

Gennady Gennadiyevich Kovalev ( _ru. Геннадий Геннадиевич Ковалёв) (born 17 May 1983 in Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai) is a boxer from Russia.

Career

Southpaw Kovalev won the silver medal at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships defeating Bahodirjon Sooltonov but losing to Aghasi Mammadov at bantam, and a gold medal at the 2004 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 beat Bradley Saunders to reach the finals but lost to defending Kazakh champion Serik Sapiyev 5:20.

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a bantamweight)
*Defeated Berik Serikbayev (Kazakhstan) 21-6
*Defeated Zsolt Bedak (Hungary) 43-20
*Defeated Khavazi Khatsygov (Bulgaria) 25-14
*Defeated Bahodirjon Sultanov (Uzbekistan) 21-15
*Lost to Agassi Mamedov (Azerbaijan) 8-17

2007 (as a Light welterweight)
*Defeated Andrey Tsiruk (Belarus) 33-11
*Defeated Marufjon Fayzuloyev (Tajikistan) 24-10
*Defeated Gyula Kate (Hungary) 22-9
*Defeated Boris Georgiev (Bulgaria) walk-over
*Defeated Bradley Saunders (England) 16-8
*Lost to Serik Sapiyev (Kazakhstan) 5-20

Olympic results

2004 (as a bantamweight)
*1st round bye
*Defeated Malik Bouziane (Algeria) 23-20
*Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux (Cuba) 5-20

2008 (as a Light welterweight)
*Defeated Maimaitituersun Qiong (China) 15-8

External links

* [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/rus/Gennady+Kovalev/386210 Yahoo! Sports]


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