Detelin Dalakliew

Detelin Dalakliew medal table
Boxing
Bulgaria
World championships
gold	2009	Bantamweight
bronze	2003	Bantamweight
European championships
silver	2008	Bantamweight
silver	2006	Bantamweight
bronze	2004	Bantamweight
EU championships
gold	2007	Bantamweight
gold	2005	Bantamweight
gold	2004	Bantamweight

Detelin Stefanov Dalakliew ( Bulgarian Детелелин Стефанов Далаклиев , English transliteration Detelin Stefanov Dalakliev * 19th February 1983 in Pleven ) is a former Bulgarian boxer in the bantamweight .

Career

Detelin Dalakliew started boxing in his hometown of Pleven and later trained in the boxing departments of CSKA Sofia , Levski Sofia , Botew Plovdiv and Akademik Sofia. He was the captain of the Bulgarian national boxing team and won several national championship titles from 2001, most recently in 2015 in lightweight.

After winning a bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in Sarajevo in 2001, he started at the European Championships in Perm in 2002 , where he was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Ali Hallab . At the 2003 World Championships in Bangkok , however, he made it to the semi-finals, lost there to Ağası Məmmədov and won a bronze medal.

In 2004 he won the EU championships in Madrid and this time also beat Ali Hallab and Zsolt Bedák in the final . At the European Championships in Pula in 2004 , he again won a bronze medal after losing to Gennady Kovalyov in the semi-finals . Due to his previous successes, he was also able to take part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , but was eliminated in the round of 16 against Ağası Məmmədov.

In 2005 he won again the EU championships in Cagliari , where he also managed a victory against Wilhelm Gratschow . At the 2005 World Championships in Mianyang, however, he lost in the preliminary round to Gary Russell .

His first entry into the finals at a European Championship he then achieved in 2006 in Plovdiv . He defeated Ali Hallab and Joseph Murray , among others , before he was defeated in the fight for the gold medal against Ali Aliyev and thus became vice-European champion. In 2007 he again secured the EU title in Dublin , defeating Rudolf Dydi and Denis Makarov, among others . At the 2007 World Championships in Chicago, however, he was defeated this time in the preliminary round against Ali Hallab.

In 2008 Dalakliew started at the European Olympic qualification in Pescara and Athens . With wins against Chawazi Chatsygov and Nebojša Rosić, as well as defeats against John Nevin and Ali Hallab, however, he did not manage to get a starter placement for the 2008 Olympic Games .

In 2008 in Liverpool he was able to become vice European champion again after defeating Dennis Ceylan and Andrew Selby , among others , and only defeated in the final 5: 5+ against Luke Campbell . He then achieved his greatest success at the 2009 World Cup in Milan . With six wins, including against Andrew Selby, Yankiel León and Eduard Absalimow , he secured the first and so far last Bulgarian amateur world champion title in boxing since 1995 (as of 2020). For this he was voted Bulgaria's Sportsman of the Year.

After this success, however, he could no longer achieve medal placement on an international level. He lost to Furkan Memiş in the round of 16 at the 2010 European Championship in Moscow , dropped out of the quarter-finals at the 2011 European Championship in Ankara and failed in the quarter-finals of the 2011 World Cup in Baku to Luke Campbell.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he was eliminated in the quarter-finals with 15:16 against Luke Campbell and lost in the second round of the EM 2013 in Minsk against Elvin Isayev. Against this he lost in the round of 16 at the 2015 Military World Games in South Korea .

In addition, Dalakliew fought for the US team Memphis Force in 2010/11 and for the British team British Lionhearts in the World Series of Boxing in 2015 and won international tournaments in Finland, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Spain.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detelin Dalakliew, BoxRec
2. ↑ Detelin Dalakliew, Olympic.org
3. ↑ Junior European Championship 2001
4. ↑ EM 2002
5. ↑ World Cup 2003
6. ↑ EU Championships 2004
7. ↑ EM 2004
8. ↑ OS 2004
9. ↑ EU Championships 2005
10. ↑ World Cup 2005
11. ↑ EM 2006
12. ↑ EU Championships 2007
13. ↑ 2007 World Cup
14. ↑ European Olympic Qualification 2008 1
15. ↑ European Olympic Qualification 2008 2
16. ↑ EM 2008
17. ↑ World Cup 2009
18. ↑ Plovdiver Boxer is Sportsman of the Year 2009
19. ↑ EM 2010
20. ↑ EM 2011
21. ↑ World Cup 2011
22. ↑ OS 2012
23. ↑ EM 2013
24. ^ Military World Games 2015

swell

• Website www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
• Box Sport magazine

Web links

• Detelin Dalakliew in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )