Daniel Petrow (boxer)

Daniel Petrow (boxer) medal table
Boxing
Bulgaria
Olympic games
gold	1996	Light flyweight
silver	1992	Light flyweight
World championships
bronze	1997	Light flyweight
gold	1995	Light flyweight
silver	1993	Light flyweight
bronze	1991	Light flyweight
World cup
bronze	1994	Light flyweight
European championships
gold	1996	Light flyweight
gold	1993	Light flyweight
bronze	1991	Flyweight

Daniel Boschilow Petrov (Bulgarian: Даниел Божилов Петров) (* 8. September 1971 in Varna ) is a former Bulgarian boxers in the light flyweight .

Career

Petrow won the Junior World Championships in Bayamón in 1989 at the age of 17 , where he was able to defeat the eventual World Cup winner Rico Kubat in the final . In 1990 he won the Balkan Championships in Patras and took part in the World Cup in Mumbai , where he was eliminated in the round of 16 against later double world champion Eric Griffin .

The 1991 European Championships in Gothenburg were the only international championships in which he competed in flyweight. After victories against Soner Karagöz and Bogdan Jendrysik, he lost in the semi-finals to world and Olympic champion István Kovács , which meant he was eliminated with a bronze medal. He won another bronze medal at the 1991 World Championships in Sydney . He had prevailed against Tadahiro Sasaki, Alexander Nalbadyan and Pál Lakatos before he was eliminated in the semifinals against Rogelio Marcelo . He lost to this in the final of the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona after defeating Nelson Dieppa , O Chong-chol, Pál Lakatos and Jan Quast .

At the Challenge Match 1993 in Istanbul he won silver after another defeat in the final against Rogelio Marcelo. At the 1993 World Championships in Tampere , he beat Jan Quast, Pál Lakatos and Erdenotsogtyn Tsogtjargal, before losing 6: 8 to Nschan Muntschjan in the final and was runner-up. At the European Championships in 1993 in Bursa , he then won the gold medal by beating Murat Yenisolak, Mikko Mantere and Pál Lakatos.

In 1994 he won the Challenge Match in Dublin with a final victory against Nschan Muntschjan and took part in the 1994 World Cup in Bangkok , where he got out in the semifinals without a fight and won bronze.

In 1995 he won the World Championships in Berlin , defeating Hermensen Ballo, José Laureano, Andrzej Rżany , Hamid Berhili and Bernard Inom. In 1996 he won the gold medal at the European Championships in Vejle with victories against Ramil Tschusnutdinow, Rudik Kazandżian, Nschan Muntschjan, Sabin Bornei and Oleh Kyrjuchin . As reigning European and world champion, he then started at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , where he was able to advance to the final against Nschan Muntschjan, Somrot Kamsing and Oleh Kyrjuchin, where he defeated Mansueto Velasco and became Olympic champion.

In 1997 he won bronze at the World Championships in Budapest , when he had defeated Dilshod Yuldashev, Pál Lakatos and Valeri Sidorenko and was eliminated in the semifinals against Maikro Romero , who had become Olympic flyweight champion in 1996.

At the 1998 European Championships in Minsk he was eliminated in the preliminary round 6: 6+ against Oleh Kyrjuchin and lost to Suban Pannon in the round of 16 of the 1999 World Championships in Houston .

He won the international Strandja Tournament held in Bulgaria in 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports Reference
2. ↑ Junior World Championships 1989
3. ↑ Balkan Championships 1990
4. ↑ World Cup 1990 (3)
5. ↑ European Championships 1991
6. ↑ World Championships 1991
7. ↑ 1992 Olympic Games
8. ^ Challenge Match 1993
9. ↑ World Championships 1993
10. ↑ European Championships 1993
11. ↑ Challenge Match 1994
12. ↑ World Cup 1994
13. ↑ World Championships 1995
14. ↑ European Championships 1996
15. ↑ 1996 Olympic Games
16. ↑ World Championships 1997
17. ↑ European Championships 1998
18. ↑ World Championships 1999
19. ↑ Strandja tournaments