Kim Song-guk (boxer)

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	김성국
Revised Romanization	Gim Seong-guk
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Sŏngguk
See also : Korean name

Kim Song-guk (born April 11, 1984 ) is a former North Korean boxer . Kim was a bronze medalist at the 2006 Asian Games and the 2006 World Championships , a silver medalist at the 2005 Asian Championships and the 2004 Olympic Games, and a 2007 Asian Champion.

Career

Kim played his first international championship in 2002 at the Asian Championships in Seremban . In the featherweight (-57 kg) starting he left the quarterfinals against Suttisak Samaksaman, Thailand , from. The Asian Games in the same year also ended for him in the preliminary round.

In 2004, Kim qualified with a victory at the second Asian Olympic qualifying tournament in Guangzhou for the Olympic Games in Athens . At the Games he reached the final after winning over Konstantin Kupatadze, Georgia (25:14), Muideen Ganiyu, Nigeria (32:11), and Vitali Tajbert , Germany (29:24). In this he faced the Russian Alexei Tishchenko , to whom he was defeated with 39:17 points and thus won the silver medal.

At the Asian Championships 2005 the final, which he lost against Meharullah, Pakistan (35:16). In the same year he was eliminated from the world championships in the quarter-finals against the later bronze medalist Yuriorkis Gamboa , Cuba . In 2006 Kim won the bronze medal at the Asian Games and in 2007 he was Asian champion in the lightweight (-60 kg). In the course of this tournament he beat u. a. the winner of the Asian Games 2006 Hu Qing, China (23: 9), and the bronze medalist of the Asian Games 2006 Bekzod Khidirov, Uzbekistan (17: 4). In the same year he won after Siegen a. a. on the bronze medalist of the European Championships 2006 Wasgen Safarjanz , Belarus (19:18), and the winner of the South American Games 2006 Darleys Pérez , Colombia (23: 6), and a semi-final defeat against Domenico Valentino , Italy (22:14), the bronze medal at the World championships .

With this last success, Kim also qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games , in which, however, he was eliminated against the later silver medalist Daouda Sow , France (13: 3).

Web links

• Profile at Daum

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• amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
• boxrec.com

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Song-guk is the first name.