Andrei Kurnjawka

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Andrei Kurnjawka

Andrei Petrovich Kurnyavka ( Russian Андрей Петрович Курнявка , English transcription Andrey Petrovich Kurnyavka; born May 4, 1968 in Frunze , Kyrgyz SSR , USSR ) is a former boxer from Kyrgyzstan. He started for the Soviet Union , for which he was middleweight boxing champion from 1989 and vice world champion from 1991 in the light heavyweight division , and from 1992 for Kyrgyzstan .

Career

In 1986 he won the European Junior Championships in Copenhagen , beating Henry Forss from Finland, Brian Lentz from Denmark and Mario Nesemann from the GDR . In 1989 he won the Soviet Middleweight Championships and won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Athens that year . After victories against Sven Ottke from Germany and Fatmir Makoli from Yugoslavia, he only lost in the semifinals against Henry Maske from the GDR.

In October 1989 he took part in the middleweight division at the World Championships in Moscow . He defeated the US and Golden Gloves Champion Ray Lathon (28:15), the Hungarian Olympic competitor from 1988 Zoltán Fuzesy (11: 4) and in the final the reigning world champion Ángel Espinosa from Cuba (28:12). He then rose to the light heavyweight division.

There he won the Goodwill Games in Seattle in August 1990 , with victories against Sándor Hranek from Hungary, Jeremy Williams from the USA and Terry McGroom from the USA. At the 1991 World Championships in Sydney , he won the silver medal. He had prevailed against the Italian champion and Olympian Roberto Castelli (tKo), the later two-time professional world champion John Ruiz from the USA (20:14) and the Canadian Olympian Dale Brown (24:12). In the final he finally lost to the German Torsten May (14:27), who also won the gold medal at the Olympic Games the following year.

At the 26th Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996 , he lost in the heavyweight division in the preliminary round against Félix Savón from Cuba (3: 9).

He also boxed in the German Bundesliga, including in 1991 for Schwerin SC . Since 2007 he has been a referee and point judge and became Vice President of the Moscow Boxing Federation .

Kurnjawka had also been sentenced to several years in prison for drug trafficking in Germany. He had smuggled several kilograms of heroin from Kyrgyzstan to Hanover . However, because of good conduct, he was released early and deported to his home country of Kyrgyzstan. In 2000 and 2002 he was the victim of gun attacks. In the latter, he was gunned down in front of his home in Bishkek .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pear too . In Der Spiegel No. 51 of December 16, 1991. Quote: "At the beginning of the Bundesliga, only one appeared: light heavyweight Andrej Kurnjawka, who after all impressively demonstrated how important outside help can be."
  2. ↑ Amateurboxer Kurnjawka shot down, Netzeitung ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). August 9, 2002. Retrieved March 22, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kurnjawka, Andrei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Курнявка, Андрей Петрович; Kurnjawka, Andrei Petrovich (Russian); Kurnyavka, Andrey Petrovich (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Kyrgyz boxer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th May 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Frunze