Bakhyt Sarsekbayev

Bakhyt Sarsekbayev

Personal information
Full name	Бахыт Абдирахманович Сарсекбаев
Nationality	Kazakhstan
Born	November 29, 1981 (1981-11-29) Almaty, Kazakhstan
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	69 kilograms (150 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Rated at	Welterweight
Medal record Olympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing Welterweight Asian Games Gold 2006 Doha Welterweight Bronze 2002 Busan Light Welterweight Asian Championships Gold 2005 Ho Chi Minh City Welterweight Gold 2007 Ulan Bator Welterweight

Bakhyt Abdirakhmanovich Sarsekbayev (Kazakh: Бақыт Сәрсекбаев, Russian: Бахыт Абдирахманович Сарсекбаев; born November 29, 1981) is a Kazakh amateur boxer who won Olympic Gold 2008 at Welterweight. At the 2006 Asian Games he had also won the gold medal in the welterweight (-69 kg) division.

Career

The southpaw holds two wins over Cuban fellow southpaw and 2005 world champion Erislandi Lara. He won bronze at the 2002 Asian Games.

He won the 2006 World University Boxing Championships, at the Asian Games 2006 he beat Chinese Hanati Silamu.

At the 2007 World Championships he beat Xavier Noël and PanAm champ Pedro Lima but was upset by old foe Silamu. He has qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. In the Olympic final he defeated Cuban Carlos Banteaux Suarez 18:9.

Olympic Games results

2008 (as a welterweight)

• Defeated Adam Trupish (Canada) 20-1
• Defeated Vitaly Gruşac (Moldova) RSC 2 (1:18)
• Defeated Dilshod Mahmudov (Uzbekistan) 12-7
• Defeated Kim Jung-Joo (South Korea) 10-6
• Defeated Carlos Banteaux(Cuba)

World Amateur Championship results

2007 (as a welterweight)

• Defeated Xavier Noel (France) 18-7
• Defeated Velidor Vidic (Bosnia) 26-4
• Defeated Pedro Lima (Brazil) 23-11
• Lost to Hanati Silamu (China) 14-20

References

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