Mykola Butsenko
| Mykola Butsenko medal table |
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 Ukraine
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| World Championship | ||
| bronze | 2013 | Bantamweight |
| European Championship | ||
| silver | 2017 | Bantamweight |
| silver | 2013 | Bantamweight |
| European Games | ||
| silver | 2019 | Bantamweight |
Mykola Butsenko (born June 25, 1991 in Odessa ) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer .
Career
He started boxing in 2000 and fought around 315 fights until 2017. He is 1.70 m tall and southpaw.
His greatest success as a youth was winning the gold medal (weight class up to 46 kg) at the European Cadet Championships in June 2007 in Siófok , Hungary , when he prevailed in the final against the Russian Vladimir Gavrilow. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 he also won the Ukrainian youth championships.
From 2012 he fought in the elite class (adults) and won the Ukrainian championships that year, as well as a bronze medal in the bantamweight division at the U22 European championships in Kaliningrad in December ; he was eliminated in the semifinals against the Russian Vladimir Nikitin .
In June 2013 he won the silver medal in bantamweight at the European Championships in Minsk . On the way to the final he was able to defeat Bulgarian Stefan Ivanov, Romanian Răzvan Andreiana , Italian Alessio Di Savino and Armenian Aram Awagjan , but failed in the fight for gold against Irishman John Nevin . In October of the same year, he participated in the bantamweight at the World Championships in Almaty . After victories against Joe Ham from Scotland, Donchai Thathi from Thailand and Selçuk Eker from Turkey, he lost again in the semifinals to Vladimir Nikitin and won bronze.
At the 2015 World Cup in Doha, however, he lost in the first fight against Chatchai Butdee . In November 2015 he won the Ukrainian Championship. After he failed in the European Olympic qualification in April 2016 (victory against Sándor Tar and Fredrik Jensen, defeat against Qais Ashfaq and Aram Awagjan ), he started the global Olympic qualification in Baku in June 2016. There he won the tournament with victories against Jaafar Al-Sudani from Iraq, Wladislaw Voroshilov from Israel, Fahem Hammachi from Algeria, Robeisy Ramírez from Cuba and Erdenebatyn Tsendbaatar from Mongolia. Thus he became a participant in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , but retired there in the first fight against Mohamed Hamout .
He won a silver medal at the 2017 European Championships after knocking out Peter McGrail in the final . He qualified for the 2017 World Championships in Hamburg , where he lost to Gaurav Bidhuri in the round of 16 .
He won the silver medal at the 2019 European Games in Minsk after losing to Kurt Walker in the final.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Results of the 2007 Cadet European Championship , Boxing.strefa
- Results of the U22 European Championship 2012 , Boxing.strefa
- Results of the EM 2013 , Boxing.strefa
- Results of the 2013 World Cup , Boxing.strefa
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Butsenko, Mykola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |