Bahodirjon Sultonov

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Bahodirjon Sooltonov
Personal information
Full nameBakhodirdzhon Sultanov
Nationality Uzbekistan
Born (1985-01-15) January 15, 1985 (age 39)
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classFeatherweight
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Bantamweight
World Amateur Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Bangkok Bantamweight
Bronze medal – third place
2009 Milan
Featherweight
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Doha Featherweight
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2004 Puerto Princesa Bantamweight

Bahodirjon Sooltonov (Баходирджон Султанов; born January 15, 1985, in Andijan) is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the bantamweight (54 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.

Career

At bantamweight he won bronze 2003 losing to Russia's Gennadi Kovalev. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. In the final he defeated Kyrgyzstan's Aybek Abdymomunov.

Sooltonov won the gold medal at featherweight at the

Kim Song Guk in the semifinal and Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig
.

At the world championships 2007 he lost to eventual Russian winner Albert Selimov and didn't medal.

Olympic Results 2004

2004 (as a bantamweight)

  • 1st round bye
  • Defeated Andrzej Liczik (Poland) RSC 2 (1:28)
  • Defeated Andrew Kooner (Canada) 44–32
  • Lost to
    Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz
    (Cuba) 13–27, southpaw Rigondeaux scored a knockdown

Olympic Results 2008

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a bantamweight)

2005 (as a bantamweight)

2007 (as a featherweight)

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