Andrey Zamkovoy

Andrei Viktorovich Samkowoi (Russian: Андрей Викторович Замковой; born July 4, 1987 in Svobodny, Amur region ) is a Russian boxer. It was 2009 in Milan vice-champion of the amateurs welterweight and 2012 bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in London.

Career

Andrei Samkowoi boxing since 1998. He is now a member of locomotive Khabarovsk. The southpaw, who is unusually tall for the welterweight division with 1.82 meters, is there coached by Felix K. Geljus. Until the 2009 World Championships in Milan, he had denied 157 fights, of which he had won 146.

In the junior level, he brought it in 2005 to the Russian top. He started this year at the Junior European Championships in Tallinn, winning the title in the light welterweight division there. He won four fights he had to deny all prematurely. Inter alia he defeated in the semifinals Alexis Vastine of France by terminating i the 3rd round and in the final Natig Alischew from Azerbaijan through abortion in the 2nd round.

In the senior Samkowoi took several years to achieve a leading position in Russia. At the Russian Championships in the years 2006 to 2008, he failed to qualify for the semifinals. But in 2007 he won an "All - Russia " tournament of the "Olympic Hopes".

In 2008 he won the first time an international tournament and won the " Algirdas - Schozikas " Memorial in Kaunas in the welterweight division. In the final battle, he defeated it Edurard Spakow from Lithuania. He made so that the new Russian head coach of the amateur boxer Nikolai Khromov, who had Alexander Lebsiak replaced in that post, attention to himself. When " Konstantin Korotkov, " tournament in 2009 in Khabarovsk Andrei Samkowoi came in the final of the welterweight, where he still lost to David Arustamjan from Russia on points. In the subsequent World Cup elimination in Chekhov, in which the best boxers of Russia took part, he beat Dimitri Ivanov (12:1 ), Ivan climate Schin ( 14:4 ) and David Arustamjan ( 8:5 ) as points, fought his way to the participation in the World Cup 2009 in Milan.

In Milan Samkowoi convinced. He defeated welterweight Vincent Otieno from Kenya ( 29:0 ), Jaoid Chiguer from France ( 24:11 ), Balázs Bácskai from Hungary ( 15:3 ), William McLaughlin from Ireland ( 16:7 ) and the two-time world champion Serik Säpijew from Kazakhstan ( 16:10) convincingly on points. In the final he faced the Germans Jack Culcay - Keth, against whom he lost on points ( 4:7 ).

2010 defeated Andrei Samkowoi the Bocskai Memorial in Debrecen the Cuban world-class man Carlos Banteaux on points, but suffered in the final of this tournament against Hungary Balazs Bacskai a clear point defeat ( 0:9 ). A disappointment he experienced at the European Championships in Moscow, where he lost his first fight against eventual bronze medalist Taras Schelestjuk from Ukraine on points ( 3:6 ), so he resigned and finished only 17th place in the final. In this year of competition he was then for the first time Russian champion in the welterweight division, where he won the finals against Petr Chamukow convincingly on points ( 9:2 ).

This title he defended in 2011 with a final victory over Islam Edisultanow ( 18:8 ) and therefore took as reigning Russian champion at the 2011 World Championships in part, in which he claimed victories over Mustapha Abdoulaye Hima, Nigeria ( 14:2 ), the bronze medalist of the Asian Championship 2011 Byambyn Tüvshinbat, Mongolia, and Stephan Danyo, Holland ( 17:5 ), reached the quarterfinals, but this, as with the 2010 European Championships to eventual champion Taras Schelestjuk, Ukraine ( 13:13 ), and thus lost on the 5 landed. place.

With this placement, he qualified for the 2012 Olympics in London, where after beating Maimaitti Tusunqiong, China ( 16:11), Adam Nolan, Ireland ( 18:9 ), and Errol Spence, USA, he ( 16:11), reached the semi-finals, in which he compared the World Cup Second Serik Säpijew, Kazakhstan ( 18:12 ), lost and thus won the Olympic bronze medal.

2013 Andrei won Samkowoi the chemistry Cup in Halle ( Saale). At the European Championships this year, he was not used, but at the Universiade in Kazan, where he point victories over Ewgeni Romaschkewitsch, Belarus (3-0 RS), Onur Sipal, Turkey (3:0 rS ) and Hurschid Normatow, Uzbekistan ( 3-0 RS) tournament winner and thus student became world champion.

International success

National success

Notes

  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
  • Light weight, up to 60 kg, light welterweight, welterweight and up to 64 kg, and 69 kg body weight
  • RS = judges' votes (2013 were abolished by the World Boxing Association AIBA, the point at issue machinery, but fell back judge in a 10 -point system per round, the judgments)

Swell

  • Website " www.amateur - boxing.strefa.pl "
  • Website " www.rusboxing.ru "
  • Trade journal Box Sports
2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships Chekhov, Moscow Oblast 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships 2013 Summer Universiade Noginsk Volgograd Italy 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships Fred Evans (Boxer)
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