Serik Sapiyev

Serik Schumanghaliuly Säpijew ( Kazakh Серік Жұманғалиұлы Сәпиев / Serik Jumanğalïulı Säpïev ;) ( born November 16, 1983 in Abai, Location Karaganda ) is a Kazakh boxer. He was world champion in 2005 and 2007 Asian champion in 2006 and Olympic participants 2008 at Welterweight, and World Cup bronze medalist, 2009 World Cup runner-up 2011 Asian champions in 2009. He won at 2012 Olympics gold in the welterweight division and received by vote of the accredited journalists the Val Barker Cup, the award for best boxer of the tournament.

Career

In 2005 Säpijew was in Chinese Mianyang first time amateur world champion in the light welterweight division. In the final he defeated the Uzbeks Dilshod Mahmudov on points.

In 2006 he won at the Asian Games bronze as he had to admit the reigning Olympic champion in this class, the Thai Manus Boonjumnong, narrowly beaten. He had his opponent on the ground.

The following year he was in Ulaanbaatar Asian champion and he was able to defend his title in Chicago, beating, among others, in the semifinals of the Japanese Masatsuga Kawachi, who had surprisingly defeated Olympic champion Manus Boonjumnong in the first round of the tournament. In the final Säpijew clearly won on points against the Russians by Gennady Kovalev.

As reigning world champion Säpiyew took course to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in part, but dropped out after a preliminary round victory against Jhonny Sanchez, Venezuela ( 22:8 ), in the quarter- final against the defending champion and eventual silver medalist Manus Boonjumnong, Thailand ( 7:5 ) from.

At the Asia Championships 2009 Säpijew started welterweight ( 69kg - ) and could in this new weight class for him immediately win the gold medal. In the same year he won at the World Championships after victories over Hugo Miyenikoue, Gambia (RSC 2 ), Emil Maharramov, Azerbaijan (RSC 3 ), Taras Shelestyuk, Ukraine ( 16:11), and Asadullo Boimurodov, Kyrgyzstan (AB 2 ), and a semi-final defeat against Andrei Samkowoi, Russia ( 16:10), the bronze medal.

2010 Säpijew won the Asian Games and in the following year he started again at the World Championships and reached this time after beating Carlos Sanchez, Ecuador (RSC 3 ), Apichet Sansit, Thailand ( RSC 2 ), Yasuhiro Suzuki, Japan ( 25:12 ) Errol Spence, USA ( 20:10), and in the semifinal against Egidijus Kavaliauskas, Lithuania ( AB 2), the final, where he faced Taras Shelestyuk, Ukraine ( 16:10), lost and thus won the silver medal.

He qualified with this placement for the 2012 Olympics in London, where after beating Yasuhiro Suzuki, Japan ( 25:11 ) Gabriel Maestre, Venezuela ( 20:9 ), Andrei Samkowoi, Russia, he ( 18:12 ), in the final of the British Freddie Evans struck with 17:9 and won gold.