Joni Turunen
| Joni Turunen medal table |
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 Finland
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| World championships | ||
| bronze | 2001 Belfast | feather |
| bronze | 1995 Berlin | To fly |
| EU championships | ||
| bronze | 2003 Strasbourg | feather |
| Military World Championships | ||
| gold | 1994 Tunis | To fly |
| Junior World Championships | ||
| gold | 1994 Istanbul | Half flying |
Joni Touko Aapeli Turunen (born April 9, 1976 in Vantaa ) is a former Finnish amateur boxer .
Career
The 1.70 m tall boxer from Vantaa trained at Viipurin Nyrkkeilijat in Helsinki and was nicknamed Jofa and Jokke . He won the Finnish championships nine times in his age and weight class (1990-1992, 1994-1996, 1999, 2001, 2003) as well as three times the internationally strong Tammer tournament (1994, 2002, 2003) and five times the international Gee-Bee tournament (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2004). He is also the winner of the Karl Lehmann tournament in 1996 in Estonia, the Norway Box Cup in 2002 in Norway and the Acropolis Cup in 2002 in Greece.
In September 1994 he won the light flyweight junior world championships in Istanbul and prevailed against the starters from Hungary, Romania, Azerbaijan, Russia and Italy. In November 1994 he also won the flyweight military world championships in Tunis .
In 1995 he took part in the flyweight championships in Berlin , beat the starters from South Korea, England and Hungary and was only eliminated in the semifinals against Bolat Schumadilow , with which he won a bronze medal.
In 2000 he won the European Olympic qualification in Venice and then started in featherweight at the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney , where he was defeated in the first fight against Falk Huste .
In 2001 he won a bronze medal in featherweight again at the World Championships in Belfast . He fought his way to the quarterfinals against the starters from Tajikistan and Belarus, defeated Boris Georgiev there and lost to Ramaz Paliani in the semifinals .
He won another bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 2003 EU Championships in Strasbourg .
Web links
- Joni Turunen in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
- Hall of Fame
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| SURNAME | Turunen, Joni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Turunen, Joni Touko Aapeli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vantaa , Finland |