Tonscho Tonschew

Tonscho Dimitrov Tonschew ; Bulgarian : Тончо Димитров Тончев; English transcription : Toncho Dimitrov Tonchev (* 1. December 1972 in Sliven ) is a former Bulgarian boxer . Tonschew was a bronze medalist at the 1991 European Championships and a silver medalist at the 1996 European Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games .

Career

amateur

Tonschew fought for the boxing department of CSKA Sofia at international tournaments and major events. In April 1988 he reached the flyweight at the 4th International Junior Tournament in Tampere, Finland, the silver medal after he was only defeated in the final Frank Sygmund from the GDR. In June of the same year, the bronze medal in flyweight followed at the 7th Junior Trophy Italia in Santa Teresa Gallura . This time he failed in the final against Markus Beyer .

In June 1989 he won the featherweight silver medal at the 8th Junior Trophy Italia , defeating Juan Felicies from Spain in the quarterfinals and Tiziano Becci from Italy in the semifinals. In the final he lost to János Petrovics from Hungary.

In August 1989 he took part in bantamweight at the Junior World Championships in Bayamón , where he defeated Paul Griffin from Ireland 4-1 in the round of 16, but was defeated in the quarterfinals against Murat Kasenow from the Soviet Union 20:25. In July 1990 he won the featherweight championship with victories against Alan Vaughan from England and Mirko Kochan from Germany, the bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in Ústí nad Labem . In the semifinals he failed because of Paata Gwasalia from the Soviet Union, to whom he was also defeated at the Junior World Championships in October of the same year in Lima .

He won another bronze medal in the lightweight at the European Championships in Gothenburg in May 1991, where he moved into the semi-finals by beating Arthur Santana from the Netherlands 35:21 and Fared Cheklat from France 23:14, where he finally won Ajrat Chamatow from the Soviet Union had to give up. At the World Championships in November of the same year in Sydney , he lost to the Australian Justin Rowsell.

At the Olympic test tournament in Spain in February 1992 and at the European Olympic qualification in France in March of the same year, he reached third place in the lightweight. He defeated, among others, Smail Jakupi from Yugoslavia 23: 4, Feyzullah Aydaş from Turkey 20: 6 and Mark Winters from Ireland 10: 5. So he got a starting place at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , where he moved into the quarter-finals by beating Julio González from Cuba 14:12 and Henry Kungsi from Papua New Guinea 11-2. There he met the American Óscar de la Hoya and was defeated by 7:16.

At the 1992 Military World Championships in Aarhus , he won a bronze medal in the lightweight. After victories against Rafael Salas from Venezuela 15: 5 and Juha Temonen from Finland 11: 4, he had to admit defeat to Bruno Wartelle from France 5:11 on points in the semi-finals. In 1993 he started at the European Championships in Bursa and won the preliminary round match against the Russian starter Sergei Galikejew, but lost again to Paata Gwasalia in the second round.

In March 1994 he was able to fight for the gold medal of the 13th Trofeo Italia in the lightweight with four victories in a row . Three months later he won the bronze medal in the lightweight at the World Cup in Bangkok . Also at the chemistry cup in Germany in March 1995, he won the bronze medal after losing to Marco Rudolph in the semi-final .

In September 1995 he again won the bronze medal at the World Military Championships in Rome , where he was knocked out in the semifinals against the Moroccan Kamal Marjouane 9:11. In February 1996, he won the gold medal at the 47th Strandja Memorial in Sofia after beating the starters from Turkey, Netherlands, Georgia and Russia.

In April 1996 he took part in the lightweight at the European Championships in Vejle . There he won in the preliminary round against Jamie Coyle from Scotland (knockout), in the round of 16 against Sergei Ostroschapkin from Belarus (12: 2), prevailed in the quarterfinals against Koba Gogoladze from Georgia (10: 8) and reached the semifinals , where he defeated the Italian Christian Giantomassi (10: 4). In the final fight he was defeated prematurely by the Romanian Leonard Doroftei , but qualified with second place for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta . There he was able to defeat Octavian Tsicu from Moldova prematurely in the preliminary round, defeating Denis Zimba from Zambia 17: 9 in the round of 16, Michael Strange from Canada in the quarter-finals 16:10 and in the semifinals Terrance Cauthen from the USA 15:12. His final fight against Hocine Soltani from Algeria ended in a draw (3: 3), but Soltani was declared the winner by the officials with auxiliary points.

Then Tonschew moved to the professional camp.

professional

In 1997 Tonchev turned pro and won his first 24 fights by 2001. He won the "WBA Inter-Continental Title", the "WBC International Title" and the EBU European Championship title in lightweight and defeated, among others, László Bognár, Kirkor Kirkorow and the former world champion in featherweight Anatoly Alexandrov. In the same year Tonschew lost to the lower class Luis Alfonso Lizarraga by technical knockout in the sixth round after he had already gone down twice in the first round.

After another defeat in 2002 against Daniel Attah, Tonschew's career did not really get going. Although he still won various titles, for example the one world title of the rather insignificant association WBU, he also had to accept defeats again and again. Among other things, he lost in 2005 to the later European champion Sergey Gulyakevich and in 2007 to the reigning European champion Yuri Romanov. After another defeat in 2007 against the eventual European champion and World Cup challenger to Amir Khan Paul McCloskey, Tonschew ended his career.

Web links

• Tontscho Tontschew in the Olympedia.org database (English)
• Amateur Boxing Strefa
• BoxRec