Wasgen Safarjanz

Wasgen Safarjanz (blue jersey) at the 2008 European Championships

Wasgen Safarjanz medal table
Boxing
Belarus
European Championship
silver	2013 Minsk	lightweight
silver	2008 Liverpool	lightweight
bronze	2006 Plovdiv	lightweight

Wasgen Grigorjewitsch Safarjanz ( Belarusian Вазген Сафар'янц ; Russian Вазген Григорьевич Сафарьянц ; English Vazgen Safaryants ; born October 22 or November 1984 in Ordzhonikidze , an armenian boxer of North Ossetian descent , ASSR , is a light-weight Soviet Boxer, of Belarusian descent, of Northern Ossetian descent.

Career

Wasgen Safarjanz, who trained at Dynamo Minsk , won a. a. In 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2016 the Belarusian championships. In 2006 he took part in the 36th European Championships in Plovdiv , where he won a bronze medal. He defeated the Hungarian Miklós Varga (50:30) in the second round and the Georgian Konstantin Kupatadze (45:24) in the quarter-finals, before losing to the Armenian Hratschik Jawachjan (16:25) in the semi- finals. In 2007 he started at the World Championships in Chicago and prevailed against Sharif Bogere from Uganda ( walkover ) and Muchtarchan Asimow from Kyrgyzstan (33: 9) before he narrowly defeated North Korean Kim Song-Guk 18:19 in the round of 16 had to.

At the 37th European Championships in Liverpool in 2008 , he achieved his most significant success to date. With victories against Filip Palić from Croatia (11: 7), Georgian Popescu from Romania (5: 4), Thomas Stalker from England (6: 4) and Ross Hickey from Ireland (9: 3) he reached the final, where he did finally eliminated against Leonid Kostylew from Russia (3: 7) and thus reached second place. Also this time he took part in the World Championships in Milan the following year , where he lost to Ukrainian Dmitro Bulenkov (12:14) in the second preliminary round. In June 2010 he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 38th European Championships in Moscow against the German Eugen Burhard (1: 8).

In April 2012 he took part in the European Olympic qualification in Trabzon , Turkey . After victorious fights against Elian Dimitrov from Bulgaria (16:12), Koba Pchakadze from Georgia (15: 7) and Josh Taylor from Scotland (13:10), he reached the final, but had to drop out due to an injury. With second place, however, he had already qualified for the Olympic Games in London in July . After a bye in the preliminary round, he then met the South Korean Han Soon-chul , against whom he reached a draw (13:13); however, Soon-chul was elected to the quarterfinals by the officials through auxiliary points.

In December 2012 he won the World Cup of the Oil-Producing States in Russia, defeating the poor Tigran Simonjan (11: 8) and Samwel Barseghian (13: 5), as well as Ruslan Kamilow from Russia (14: 8). In June 2013 he again won a silver medal at the 40th European Championships in Minsk . He was only defeated in the final against Pavlo Ishchenko from Ukraine (0: 2) after he lost Lassi Seppälä from Finland (3: 0), Furkan Ulaş Memiş from Turkey (3: 0) and Kastriot Sopa from Germany (3: 0) had defeated.

At the 17th World Championships in Almaty in October 2013 , he lost in the second preliminary round against Elwin Isajew from Azerbaijan. At the World Cup of Oil-Producing States in Russia in 2014, he won a bronze medal in the lightweight. At the European Championships in 2015 he was defeated in the round of 16 against Domenico Valentino with 1: 2 and at the European Games 2015 in Baku in the quarter-finals against Mateusz Polski with 1: 2.

In 2016 he took part in the European Olympic qualification in Samsun , where he reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated from David Oliver Joyce . At the 2017 European Championships in Ukraine, he lost 3-2 in the first fight against Pavlo Ishchenko .

Selection of international tournaments

• 2006: 1st place at the 10th Karl Lehmann tournament in Estonia
• 2007: 1st place at the 11th Minsk tournament in Belarus
• 2009: 2nd place at the 13th Algirdas Šocikas tournament in Lithuania, u. a. Victory against Egidijus Kavaliauskas
• 2010: 2nd place at the 14th Algirdas Šocikas tournament in Lithuania, u. a. Victory against David Joyce
• 2011: 1st place at the 10th Liventsev tournament in Belarus

Web links

• Wasgen Safarjanz on AIBA
• Wasgen Safarjants in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Wasgen Safarjanz on amateur.boxing.strefa.pl