Kay cough
Kay Huste (born November 8, 1974 in Berlin ), occasionally also Kai Huste , is a former German lightweight boxer. He became European and military world champions in 1998 and took part in the 2000 Olympic Games. He is the younger brother of the boxer Falk Huste .
Career
Kay Huste was around 1.76 m tall during his competitive career and trained mainly in Berlin with Uli Wegner, and from 1996 in Frankfurt / Oder with Karl-Heinz Krüger. He fought 215 fights. He was a six-time Berlin champion and won several international tournaments. In 1992 he won a bronze medal in featherweight at the European Junior Championships in Edinburgh . He had been disqualified in the semifinals against Mikhail Silantew from the CIS.
In 1996 he won bronze at the World Military Games in Rome.
In 1997 he won silver at the Muhammad Ali Cup in Louisville . He defeated the two-time US champion Jacob Hudson and the Algerian Mohamed Allalou , before he was eliminated in the final against Assan Seksenbajew from Kazakhstan with just 9:10. At the 1997 World Championships in Budapest, he lost to Alexander Maletin in the quarterfinals and reached 5th place.
In May 1998 he won the gold medal in the lightweight at the European Championships in Minsk . He prevailed by winning points against Alessandro Aloschi from Italy, Gheorghe Lungu from Romania, Tigran Ouslian from Greece and Koba Gogoladse from Georgia. Four months later he won the military world championships in Warendorf in the lightweight .
In 1999, with a narrow 13:15 defeat against Norman Schuster, he became German runner-up in the lightweight division. In the same year he lost 7: 8 in the final of the Chemistry Cup against Norman Schuster.
At the World Military Championships in Zagreb in 1999 , he was disputed in the final against the Croat Filip Palić on points and was thus second in the lightweight.
With his victory at the Chemistry Cup in 1999, in which he was able to prevail against Paata Gwasalia from Georgia, Willy Blain from France, Aidin Gasanow from Russia and Lukáš Konečný from the Czech Republic, he consolidated his participation in the Olympics in 2000. At the Summer Games in Sydney he could the Argentine Victor Castro, but failed in the subsequent round of 16 on points against the Italian Sven Paris.
After his active career, Kay Huste worked for the Federal Press Office and alongside his main job as a trainer for the Berlin TSC .
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| SURNAME | Cough, Kay |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cough, quay (alternative) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Oder) |