Andrew Selby
Andrew Selby ( born December 25, 1988 in Barry ) is a Welsh boxer.
Career
Andrew Selby began with his brother Lee Selby, who was to be Welsh champion later as he was, as a teenager with the boxes. He belongs to the association Splott Adventure ABC and is coached by Pat Mahoney and Keith Jeffries. His role model is his Welsh compatriot Joe Calzaghe.
In youth football, he won between 2002 and 2006 the Welsh Cup in the students, the cadets and juniors. He was also British champion at the Cadets in 2005 in the paper weight with a win over Leigh Wood and brititscher champion in the junior flyweight in 2006 with a win over S. Cox.
In 2005, the international career of Andrew Selby began. He finished at the Junior European Championship ( Cadets ) in Siofok / Hungary in the paper weight with a win over Ural Karsloglu from Turkey and a defeat against Russia Fasid Aleschin from the 5th Place. In 2006 he won at the Junior World Championships in Agadir flyweight with wins over Arda Tamer Avci from Turkey and Badredine Hadioui from Morocco and one defeat in the quarterfinals against Vasyl Lomatschenko from Ukraine turn the 5th Place.
2007 Andrew Selby was Welsh flyweight champion with a demolition victory over Keith Spong for the first time. In the European Junior Championships this year in Sombor he left already in the second round with one defeat against Khalid Saeed from England and thus landed the 9th Place. He was then already used in October 2007 in the Senior World Championships in Chicago, where they lost in the round of " 32 " his fight against Violito Payla from the Philippines and got away with it together with all the losers this round to 17th place.
2008 Andrew Selby was a victory in the final over Joe Gage Welsh bantamweight champion. But he did not participate in the European qualifiers for the Olympic Games in Beijing. He started at the after the Olympic Games to be held in Liverpool European Championships. In bantamweight he won it over Nebojsa Rosic from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Mazik Mateusz from Poland. In the semifinals he was defeated by Detelin Dalakliew from Bulgaria, had already won by reaching the semi-final of the European Championship bronze medal.
In 2009, Andrew Selby won with a win over Jamie Beasley turn the Welsh bantamweight championship and also won at the British Championships in Liverpool in this weight class. In the final he defeated James Allen here from England. He celebrated a success in the championships of the European Union in Odense. He won there behind Denis Makarov from Germany and John Nevin of Ireland the bronze medal. At the 2009 World Championships in Milan, he had already lost in one of the preliminary round against Detelin Dalakliew from Bulgaria and therefore only came to 17th place.
A medal he won again at the European Championships 2010 in Moscow. After victories over Pedro Matos, Portugal and Furkan Ulas Meniz, Turkey, where he lost in the semifinals against Georgi Tschigajew from Ukraine on points and got away with it to 3rd place. 2011 succeeded Andrew Selby another great success. He was European champion at flyweight in Ankara. Towards this title, he defeated Norbert Kalucza from Hungary ( 28:11 ), Elie Konki from France ( 31:17 ), Alexander RiSCAN, Moldova ( 24:12 ) and the Routenier Georgi Balakschin from Russia ( 13:10 ) each sure on points.
That same year, Selby also achieved notable success in the World Championships and took part, including with wins over Michael Conlan from Ireland and Jasurbek Latipov from Uzbekistan and a brief final defeat by the Russians Mikhail Alojan, the silver medal. With this result he qualified directly for the 2012 Olympics. In these, however, he left in the quarter- final against Robeisy Ramirez, Cuba ( 16:11), from.
At the European Championships in 2013 Selby won by a final victory over the Irishman Michael Conlan the gold medal. At the world championships in the same year he reached the semi-finals, which he, however, against Jasurbek Latipov, Uzbekistan ( 2-1 ) lost.
International success
National success
Countries fighting
Notes
- Note: WM = World Championship, EM = European, EU = European Union
- Weight classes: paper weight up to 48 kg Flyweight until 2010-51 kg, abolished since 2011 under-52 kg, bantamweight to 2010, apart 54 kg since 2011, Featherweight until 2010-57 kg since 2011-56 kg body weight
Swell
- Website " amateur boxing.strefa.pl "
- Website of the Welsh and the English boxing federation