Albert Schewketowitsch Selimow

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Albert Selimow
Albert Selimow

Boxing Boxing

RussiaRussia Russia / AzerbaijanAzerbaijanAzerbaijan 
World championships
gold 2007 Bantamweight
bronze 2009 lightweight
silver 2015 lightweight
European championships
gold 2006 Bantamweight
gold 2010 lightweight
European Games
gold 2015 lightweight

Albert Selimov ( Lezgian Селимов Шевкетан хва Альберт / Selimow Schewketan chwa Albert, Russian Альберт Шевкетович Селимов , Azerbaijani Albert Şevketoviç Səlimov * 5. April 1986 in Kaspijsk , Dagestan ASSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian, now Azerbaijani boxers from the people of Greed .

Career

Albert Selimow comes from the Russian republic of Dagestan . He started boxing as a teenager and lives and trains in Makhachkala . His coach there is Nuripascha Talibow. Albert Selimow is southpaw , has excellent technique and strength.

Juniors and youth

Albert Selimow started boxing in 1998. In 2004 he was used at the Junior World Championship in South Korea . He won his first fight there against the Bulgarian Saigan Sabri, but lost in the next round against the Turkish Serdar Avcı.

National

In 2004 he became the Russian junior bantamweight champion and started in 2005 for the first time in the Russian featherweight championships. He got there until the final, in which he lost on points against the more experienced Sergei Ignatiev. In 2006 he was then Russian featherweight champion with a final victory against Afanassi Poskatschin. In 2007 he won the title again by beating Alexei Schaydulin in the final.

In 2009 he became the Russian lightweight champion and defeated the reigning European champion Leonid Kostylev in the final . In 2010 he won the runner-up in this weight class after a narrow defeat in the final against Ildar Waganow. However, he defeated this in the final of the Russian championships in 2011, which he won his fourth national title in the adult.

Europe

Selimow is the winner of the 2006 European featherweight championships and 2010 lightweight, as well as the 2015 European lightweight games. He defeated, among others, the Commonwealth Champion Stephen Smith , the Olympic medalist Şahin İmranov , the vice-world champion Ramal Amanow, the world championship bronze winners Thomas Stalker and Otar Eranossian , as well as the world and Olympic champion Sofiane Oumiha .

World championships

At his first World Championships in Chicago in 2007 , he won the featherweight gold medal. He had defeated the Romanian Iulian Stan by breaking off in the first round and the German Marcel Herfurth 30: 6, which he moved into the round of 16. There he beat the Uzbek Bohodirion Sultanow 24: 9 and reached the quarterfinals, where he was able to prevail against the American Raynell Williams with 25: 8. In the semifinals, his Turkish opponent Yakup Kılıç could not compete due to injury, which is why Selimow moved into the final without a fight. There he defeated the Ukrainian Vasyl Lomatschenko 16:11 and inflicted his opponent's only defeat in 397 fights.

In 2008 he won the lightweight world cup in Moscow by defeating José Pedraza and Hu Qing . At the 2009 World Championships in Milan he was eliminated in the semifinals against José Pedraza 5: 9 in the semifinals and thus won a bronze medal in the lightweight. He had previously defeated Éverton Lopes (17: 2), Sailom Adi (14: 8), Erick Bonez (18: 0) and Mohammad Aziz (25: 1).

At the 2011 World Championships in Baku , Selimow was disqualified in the first fight against Héctor Manzanilla because of low blows. After not taking part in the 2013 World Championships , he started again at the 2015 World Championships in Doha . There he reached the final against Sean McComb (2: 1), as well as the two later Olympic champions Sofiane Oumiha (3: 0) and Robson Conceição (3: 0). In this he was defeated by TKO against Lázaro Álvarez .

Olympic games

As the reigning world champion, he qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , but retired there in the first fight against his World Cup final opponent Wassyl Lomatschenko (7:14).

For the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he could not qualify because he was eliminated in the European elimination in Turkey against Sam Maxwell .

Thanks to his success in the World Series of Boxing , he was able to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he lost to Sofiane Oumiha (0: 3) in the quarter-finals . In the last sixteen he defeated David Joyce (3-0).

World Series of Boxing

Albert Selimow boxed in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) from 2013 to 2015 and won 14 of 16 fights. He suffered his defeats against Wassyl Lomatschenko (1: 2) and Domenico Valentino . He remained unbeaten in the 2015 regular season, was named Boxer of the Month for April by the WSB and finished the season in second place in the WSB world rankings behind Lázaro Álvarez , whom he defeated in a 2014 encounter. With a final victory against Carlos Balderas , he also qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games .

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SURNAME Selimow, Albert Schewketowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian and Azerbaijani boxers
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaspiysk