Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko ( _ua. Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко, born February 17, 1988) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer who won the silver medal at featherweight at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships.

Career

In 2004 he became junior flyweight European U17 champion, in 2006 the aggressive southpaw won the Junior World Championships, where he beat future bantam world champion and fellow southpaw Sergey Vodopyanov.

Next year at the (seniors) World Championships 2007 in Chicago he beat Abner Cotto in the first round, Theodoros Papazov, Arturo Santos Reyes, and Li Yang in the semifinal to reach a fight against Russian favorite Albert Selimov, another southpaw, that he lost 12:16.

Lomachenko won gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. He avenged his 2007 World Championship defeat to Selimov in the first round. Lomachenko was named the outstanding boxer for the tournament and awarded the Val Barker Trophy.

World amateur championships results

2007
*Defeated Abner Cotto (Puerto Rico) 26-9
*Defeated Theodoros Papazov (Greece) 19-5
*Defeated Mikhail Bernadski (Belarus) 21-6
*Defeated Arturo Santos Reyes (Mexico) RSCO 3
*Defeated Li Yang (China) 13-13
*Lost to Albert Selimov (Russia) 11-16

Olympic Games Results

2008
*Defeated Albert Selimov (Russia) 14-7
*Defeated Bahodirjon Sooltonov (Uzbekistan) 13-1
*Defeated Li Yang (China) 12-3
*Defeated Yakup Kılıç (Turkey) 10-1
*Defeated Khedafi Djelkhir (France) 9-1 RSC 1

External links

* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/EuropeanCadetChampionships2004.html 2004 Euro]
* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/WorldChamps2007.html 2007 Results]


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