World Boxing Championships 2015
The 18th World Boxing Championships took place from October 5th to 15th, 2015 in Doha , the capital of the Emirate of Qatar . It was the first boxing world championships in the Middle East . The venue was the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena , which opened in 2014 . 260 boxers from 73 countries entered, 94 from Europe , 66 from Asia , 51 from America , 32 from Africa and 17 from the region of Oceania . At the World Cup, 23 places were awarded for participation in the 2016 Summer Olympics .
The Doha venue was decided in 2013 by the AIBA Executive Committee in South Korea . The mascot was a fox named “Majed”, Arabic for “noble”, a rare animal in Qatar.
The logo was kept in traditional Qatari colors and modeled on the country's national flag. It shows the outline of a boxer in white, on a burgundy background and with yellow lettering. Yellow is supposed to symbolize the desert sand.
Preliminary round
In the preliminary round a total of 83 fights took place on October 6th and 7th, 79 of which were decided by points and 4 by knockout or TKo. Among other things, the World Cup bronze winner Mykola Butsenko and the reigning Vice European Champion Qais Ashfaq were eliminated . Thulasi Tharumalingam and Hakan Nuraydin scored the first Qatari boxing World Cup victories in the history of the emirate against Kagiso Bagwasi and Džemal Bošnjak respectively.
Round of 16
A total of 80 round of 16 matches took place on October 8th and 9th. 76 of the duels ended with a point decision and 3 with a knockout or TKo. The heavyweight fight between the Brazilian Juan Nogueira and the Kazakhs Wasili Lewit ended with a walkover (Wo), as Nogueira could not compete due to injury and Lewit thus entered the quarter-finals without a fight. In the second round, there was already the withdrawal of some of the top favorites, including the current military world champion Qairat Jeralijew , the Olympic medalist Evaldas Petrauskas , the reigning European game winner Bachtowar Nasirow and Teymur Mammadov , the reigning European champion Daniel Asenow , the current Pan Games winner Joselito Velasquez and the current African champion Mohamed Arjaoui . The USA team did not get past this round either, after two starters were eliminated in the preliminary round and two more in the round of 16.
Quarter finals
The 40 quarter-finals, in which it was a question of entering the medal ranks, took place on October 10th. 39 duels ended by scoring and only one by TKo, when the Englishman and reigning Vice European Champion Muhammad Ali was defeated by the Azerbaijani and current European Games winner Elvin Məmişzadə in the second round. Rogen Ladon was the first Filipino to make it to the semi-finals at a World Cup in eight years, while Hosam Bakr Abdin was the first Egyptian in ten years. Eliminated include the European game winners Joseph Cordina and Collazo Sotomayor , the European champions Eimantas Stanionis , Pjotr Chamukow and Filip Hrgović , the Olympic medalists Vincenzo Mangiacapre and Ädilbek Nijasymbetias , the reigning Olympic champion Ronibek Älimchaniel and Iglesias . Most of the semi-finals went to Cuba with seven, Uzbekistan with six and Russia with five boxers.
Semifinals
The 20 semi-finals took place on October 11th and 12th, only one of which ended by TKo. The reigning vice-world champion Mohamed Flissi was decisively hit by the European Games winner Elvin Məmişzadə in the first round. Six Cubans, three Russians, three Uzbeks, two Azerbaijanis, Irish and Kazakhs each, as well as a Moroccan and a French made it to the 20 finals. Mohammed Rabii was the first Moroccan in history to make it into a boxing World Cup final. Tony Yoka became the first French boxer in a World Cup final since 2003.
final
The 10 finals were held on October 14th and 15th. 9 fights ended with a point judgment and one fight with TKo, when the Azerbaijani lightweight Albert Selimow was defeated by Cuban Lázaro Álvarez in the second round. The Cuban Joahnys Argilagos became the first world champion in the light flyweight division. He defeated the reigning European champion Wassili Jegorow from Russia 3-0, although a knockdown of the Cuban in the third round did not change the score. Michael Conlan from Ireland prevailed 3-0 in his bantamweight final fight against the Uzbek Murodjon Ahmadaliyev , becoming the first Irish amateur boxing world champion in sporting history. Conlan also suffered heavy rainfall in the third round. The Moroccan Mohammed Rabii was the first boxer in his country's sporting history to secure a World Cup gold medal. He beat the 2013 world champion, Danijar Jeleussinow from Kazakhstan, 3-0 in the welterweight final . With the super heavyweight Tony Yoka , a Frenchman won a World Cup gold medal for the first time since 2003. He had beaten the Kazak Iwan Dytschko 3-0.
Medalist
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Cuba
|
4th | 2 | 1 | 7th |
| 2 |
 Russia
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
| 3 |
 Azerbaijan
|
1 | 1 | 2 | 4th |
| 4th |
 Ireland
|
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 |
 France
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 |
 Morocco
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7th |
 Uzbekistan
|
0 | 3 | 3 | 6th |
| 8th |
 Kazakhstan
|
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 |
 Ukraine
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 |
 People's Republic of China
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 |
 Thailand
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Belarus
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 England
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Philippines
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 India
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Brazil
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Egypt
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Algeria
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 10 | 10 | 20th | 40 |
Web links
- AIBA World Boxing Championships Doha 2015 , AIBA.org
- World Amateurs Boxing Championships 2015 in Qatar , Box-Sport.de
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