Filip Palic
Filip Palić (born September 13, 1979 ) is a former Croatian lightweight amateur boxer from Zagreb , military world champion from 1999, vice European champion from 2000 and bronze medalist at the 2001 world championship.
Career
Palić started boxing in Skopje at the age of ten , became the Macedonian junior champion in 1995 and moved to Zagreb in 1996, where he trained at the boxing club Leonardo . During a short training period at the Heros boxing club in Graz , he also won an Austrian junior championship. From 1997 to 2010 he was a member of the Croatian national team and won the Croatian championships 14 times in a row during this period.
In 1999 he won the 2nd World Military Games in Zagreb. He beat Nunzio Odorifero from Italy, Marcin Gruchała from Poland, Franck Patte from France, Saleh Maksoud from Egypt and in the final Kay Huste from Germany. The following year, he won the silver medal at the European Championships in Tampere, Finland . After victories against Samuli Leppiaho from Finland, Zoran Mitrović from Serbia and Norman Schuster from Germany, he was only defeated in the final against the Russian Alexander Maletin .
In 2001 he took part in the World Championships in Belfast , where he won a bronze medal, not least thanks to the luck of the draw. He received a bye for each of the two preliminary rounds and only had to enter the round of 16, where he defeated the Spaniard Bienvenido Alloza, who had not yet appeared internationally, by breaking off in the first round. In the subsequent quarter-finals he met the Pan-American runner-up from Argentina Matias Ferreyra, whom he could only just beat with 42:36 on points. In the semi-finals, he lost to Vladimir Kolesnik from Ukraine prematurely in the third round and ended up in third place.
Further successes at major international events were third place at the EU championships in 2005 and 2009, as well as second place at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara . At the European Championships in 2002, 2006, 2008 and 2010, as well as at the World Championships in 2005 and 2009, he was eliminated before reaching the semi-finals. In 2010 he resigned from active boxing after more than 300 fights.
Results of international tournaments (selection)
- September 1998: 2nd place at the 31st Václav Procházka tournament in the Czech Republic
- March 2002: 2nd place at the 20th Trofeo Italia in Italy (including victory against Chabib Allachwerdiew )
- May 2002: 2nd place at the 4th Arena Cup in Croatia
- June 2003: 2nd place at the 9th Hakija Turajlić Cup in Bosnia
- October 2003: 3rd place at the Václav Procházka tournament in the Czech Republic (semi-final defeat against Chabib Allachwerdiew )
- May 2005: 1st place at the 6th Arena Cup in Croatia
- March 2006: 2nd place at the 1st Zlatko Hrbić tournament in Croatia (final defeat against Miklós Varga )
- May 2006: 1st place at the 7th Arena Cup in Croatia
- January 2007: 2nd place at the 51st Bocskai Cup in Hungary (final defeat against Miklós Varga )
- May 2007: 2nd place at the 8th Arena Cup in Croatia (final defeat against Domenico Valentino )
- November 2008: 2nd place at the 38th Golden Gong tournament in Macedonia
- March 2009: 2nd place at the 4th Zlatko Hrbić tournament in Croatia
- April 2009: 3rd place at the 47th Beogradski Pobednik tournament in Serbia
- May 2009: 2nd place at the 9th Arena Cup in Croatia
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Palic, Filip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1979 |