Aleksei Tishchenko

Aleksei Viktorovich Tishchenko (Russian: Алексей Викторович Тищенко; born 29 May 1984) is a former Russian Olympic boxer best known to dominate the lower weight classes in the last years winning numerous titles. He was regarded as "one of the best pound for pound Olympic boxers in the world".

Aleksei Tishchenko

Medal record
Men’s Boxing
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Featherweight
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Lightweight
World Amateur Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Mianyang Featherweight
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Chicago Lightweight
European Amateur Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Plovdiv Lightweight
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2005 Moscow Featherweight

He was born in Omsk, Soviet Union.

Career

Pressure fighter Tishchenko won the Featherweight Gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place at 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]

2006 he went up to lightweight and immediately won the European title in Plovdiv.

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

2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece

2006 European Amateur Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

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

References
  1. Россия отбила у Кубы Кубок мира. Lenta (in Russian). 2005-07-18. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  2. Алексей Тищенко уходит из бокса (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2011-08-08.


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