Abdulqədir Abdullayev

Abdulqədir Abdullayev medal table
Boxing
Azerbaijan
World championships
bronze	2015	Heavyweight
European Games
gold	2015	Heavyweight

Abdulqədir Abdulla oğlu Abdullayev ( Russian Абдулкадыр Абдуллаев / Abdulkadyr Abdullajew; born July 17, 1988 in the Dagestani ASSR , Russian SFSR , USSR ) is an Azerbaijani heavyweight boxer .

successes

He became runner-up in Azerbaijan in 2013 after losing to Teymur Məmmədov in the final and won the World Cup of Oil-Producing States in Russia. In 2014 he won the Azerbaijan Championship and was a member of the Azerbaijan Baku Fires team, which came second in the World Series of Boxing (WSB). In total, he boxed in the WSB from 2011 to 2016 and won 17 of 19 fights, including against Chouaib Bouloudinats , Joseph Parker , Alexei Yegorow , Clemente Russo and Fabio Turchi .

In 2015 he started at the European Games in Baku , defeating Ádám Hámori, Paul Omba-Biongolo and Sadam Magomedow , with which he reached the final. There he met Heworh Manukjan , who did not fight and therefore Abdullayev won the gold medal.

At the 2015 World Championships in Doha , he won bronze after beating Chouaib Bouloudinats , Algeria (3-0), and Yamil Peralta , Argentina ( 3-0) and knocked out in the semifinals against Erislandy Savón , Cuba (3-0) was. The following year he took part in the European Olympic qualification tournament, in which he won after victories a. a. via Darren O'Neill , Ireland (2: 1), surprisingly lost in the semi-finals to the inexperienced Lawrence Okolie , United Kingdom (3: 0). Abdullayev secured the last remaining qualification place for the 2016 Olympic Games at this tournament with a victory in the battle for third place against Heworh Manukjan, Ukraine (3-0).

At the 2016 Olympic Games he was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Rustam To'laganov , Uzbekistan, and in the quarter-finals at the 2017 European Championships against Cheavan Clarke , England.

Web links

• Athlete profile at the European Games 2015