Aleksei Tishchenko
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| Men’s Boxing | ||
Representing  Russia
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| Olympic Games | ||
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2004 Athens | Featherweight |
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2008 Beijing | Lightweight |
| World Amateur Championships | ||
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2005 Mianyang | Featherweight |
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2007 Chicago | Lightweight |
| European Amateur Championships | ||
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2006 Plovdiv | Lightweight |
| World Cup | ||
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2005 Moscow | Featherweight |
Aleksei Viktorovich Tishchenko (Russian: Алексей Викторович Тищенко; born 29 May 1984) is a former Russian Olympic boxer best known for dominating the lower weight classes and winning numerous titles. He was regarded as "one of the best pound for pound Olympic boxers in the world".[citation needed]
He was born in Omsk, Soviet Union.
Career[edit]
Tishchenko won the Featherweight Gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He had qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by topping the 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland.
Tishchenko also won the featherweight gold medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, China.
In 2005 he was part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Boxing World Cup.[1]
In 2006, he went up to lightweight and won the European title in Plovdiv the same year.
As of 2007 he has been elected into the Omsk Regional Duma for United Russia. At the same year at the world championships he was upset by Englishman Frankie Gavin.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he benefitted from Gavin's absence and won the gold medal by defeating French boxer Daouda Sow in the final.
On 11 February 2011 he announced about finishing his career.[2]
Amateur results[edit]
2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece
- Defeated Hadj Belkheir (Algeria) 37-17
- Defeated Shahin Imranov (Azerbaijan) RSC-3 (1:08)
- Defeated Galib Jafarov (Kazakhstan) 40-22
- Defeated Jo Seok-Hwan (South Korea) 45-25
- Defeated Kim Song-Guk (North Korea) 39-17
2006 European Amateur Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- Defeated Odiseas Saridis (Greece) RSC-2
- Defeated Samet Huseinov (Bulgaria) AB-2
- Defeated Oleksandr Klyuchko (Ukraine) 42:29
- Defeated Hrachik Javakhyan (Armenia) 39:15
2007 World Amateur Championships in Chicago, United States
- Defeated Kim Joung-Won (South Korea) 27-20
- Defeated Hüsnü Koçabas (Netherlands) RSC 3 (1:34)
- Defeated Pichai Sayotha (Thailand) RSC 3 (1:40)
- Lost to Frankie Gavin (England) 10-19
2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China
- Defeated Saifeddine Nejmaoui (Tunisia) 10-2
- Defeated Anthony Little (Australia) 11-3
- Defeated Darley Pérez (Colombia) 13-5
- Defeated Hrachik Javakhyan (Armenia) 10-5
- Defeated Daouda Sow (France) 11-9
References[edit]
- ^ Россия отбила у Кубы Кубок мира. Lenta (in Russian). 2005-07-18. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Алексей Тищенко уходит из бокса (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
External links[edit]
- Official site of Tischenko
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aleksey Tishchenko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
1904: 115–125 lb (52.2–56.7 kg) · 1908: 116–126 lb (52.6–57.2 kg) · 1920–1928: 118–126 lb (53.5–57.2 kg) · 1932–1936: 119–126 lb (54.0–57.2 kg) · 1948: 54–58 kg · 1952–2008: 54–57kg · 2020–: 53–57 kg | |
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1904: 125–135 lb (56.7–61.2 kg) · 1908: 126–140 lb (57.2–63.5 kg) · 1920–1936: 126–135 lb (57.2–61.2 kg) · 1948: 58–62 kg · 1952–2008: 57–60 kg · 2012: 56–60 kg · 2016: 57–60 kg · 2020–: 58–63 kg | |
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