Satoshi Shimizu

Satoshi Shimizu medal table
Boxing
Japan
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	2012 London	Bantamweight
Asian Games
bronze	2014 Incheon	lightweight
Asian Championship
bronze	2009 Zhuhai	Featherweight

Satoshi Shimizu ( Japanese 清水 聡 , Shimizu Satoshi ; born March 13, 1986 in Okayama Prefecture ) into a Japanese boxer. Shimizu took part in the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing in the featherweight and bronze medalist of the Asian Games 2009. In the 2012 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the bantamweight .

Career

The 1.79 m tall Shimizu was Japanese Champion in 2007 and 2009 and also won the Japanese National Trials in 2011 .

In 2007 Shimizu took part in the World Championships in Chicago , but retired early in the first fight against Maksat Ospanov, Kazakhstan (RSC 3rd). The following year he took part in the Asian Olympic qualification tournament in Bangkok and after three victories reached the final, which he lost against Bohodirion Sultanov, Uzbekistan (RSC 3rd), and thus qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . At the Olympic Games, Shimizu lost in the first fight against the future bronze medalist Yakup Kilic, Turkey (12: 9).

At the Asian Championships 2009 in Zhuhai Shimizu won the bronze medal in the featherweight (-57 kg) after a victory over Sanan Silva, Sri Lanka (13: 6) and a semi-final defeat against Wuttichai Masuk , Thailand (9: 2 ). At the World Championships in Milan that same year , Shimizu injured himself shortly before the first fight and was therefore unable to compete.

2010 Shimizu was eliminated from the Asian Games in the quarter-finals against the South Korean Myong-Son Ri and at the World Championships in the following year against Vittorio Parrinello , Italy (22:13), in the preliminary round. With that he missed the qualification for the Olympic Games in 2012 . He tried to make up for this at the Asian Olympic qualification tournament in Astana and, after a semi-final defeat against Shiva Thapa , India (31:17), won third place in the Olympic Games.

There he won the preliminary round match 10: 9 against Isaac Dogboe from Ghana. In the last sixteen he met the Azerbaijani Məhəmməd Əbdülhəmidov . Although Shimizu had his opponent on the ground six times in the third round alone, Abdulkhamidow was not counted in accordance with the rules and was even declared the point winner (22:17). After the protest of the Japanese team, the world boxing association AIBA overturned the judgment and declared Shimizu the winner through superiority. Bribery allegations were made against the Turkmen referee and the Azerbaijani functionary of the AIBA; both were eventually suspended. Shimizu was thus in the quarter-finals, where he defeated the Algerian Mohammed Amine Ouadahi 17:15. In the semifinals he was defeated 11:20 against the British Luke Campbell and thus got out of the Olympic Games with a bronze medal.

He won another bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games in South Korea.

Web links

• Satoshi Shimizu in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )