Beksat Sattarchanov

Beksat Sattarchanow (Cyrillic Бекзат Саттарханов ; born April 4, 1980 in Turkestan , † December 31, 2000 in Shymkent ) was a Kazakh boxer .

Sattarchanow took second place in featherweight at the Junior World Championships (U19) in Beijing in 1998 . In the quarter-finals he defeated the later multiple Olympic and world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux , but lost the final against Servin Suleymanow from Ukraine .

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he won the gold medal in the featherweight class. In the final he beat the American Ricardo Juarez on points. The victory is considered controversial; the US team demanded a revision of the result after the fight, as Sattarchanov had overly clamped in the fight. As a result of the review, the Russian referee was banned from all international competitions for four years, but the judgment remained.

Sattarchanov died on New Year's Eve in 2000 in a traffic accident in the Kazakh capital Astana at the age of twenty.

Web links

Beksat Sattarchanow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Boxing champion killed in crash. In: news.bbc.co.uk. BBC , January 1, 2001, accessed December 22, 2011 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sattarchanov, Beksat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Саттарханов, Бекзат Сейілханұлы (Kazakh)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Kazakh boxer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Turkestan
DATE OF DEATH	December 31, 2000
Place of death	Schymkent

[BBC-1] Boxing champion killed in crash. In: news.bbc.co.uk. BBC , January 1, 2001, accessed December 22, 2011 .