Fazliddin Gʻoibnazarov

Fazliddin Gʻoibnazarov medal table
Boxing
Uzbekistan
Olympic Summer Games
gold	2016	Light welterweight
World championships
silver	2015	Light welterweight
Asian Championships
silver	2015	Light welterweight

Fazliddin Gʻoibnazarov , or Fazliddin Gaibnazarov and Fasliddin Gaibnasarow (born June 16, 1991 ) is an Uzbek professional boxer from Buxoro . As an amateur, he became an Olympic light welterweight champion in 2016 (-64 kg).

Amateur career

He started boxing in 2003 and won a bronze medal at the Cadet World Championships in Baku in 2007 , the silver medal at the Chemistry Cup 2011, the silver medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade and the gold medal at the international tournaments Sidney Jackson Memorial Tournament 2010 and 2011, as well as the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Memorial Tournament 2011.

At the 2011 World Championships in Baku, he lost to Vasyl Lomatschenko in the quarter-finals , having previously defeated Eugen Burhard and Wellington Arias , among others . He then started at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , but was eliminated again in the quarter-finals against Han Soon-chul . At the 2013 World Championships in Almaty, he lost in the second preliminary round to Lázaro Álvarez .

With second place at the 2015 Asian Championships in Bangkok , he qualified for the 2015 World Championships in Doha . After a bye for the preliminary round, he defeated Thulasi Tharumalingam from Qatar in the round of 16 by knockout in the first round. In the subsequent quarter-finals he won 3-0 against the Italian Vincenzo Mangiacapre and moved into the semi-finals, where he defeated the Thai Wuttichai Masuk 3-0. He was thus in the final against the Russian Vitaly Dunaizew , to whom he was defeated just on points. Gʻoibnazarov also won the qualification for the Olympic Games in 2016 .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won the gold medal with victories over Malonga Dival (TKO), Manoj Kumar (3: 0), Gary Russell (2: 1), Vitali Dunaizew (2: 1) and Collazo Sotomayor (2 :1).

Professional career

He made his professional debut on April 22, 2017 at the StubHub Center, California .

Web links

• AIBA profile