Bakhtiyar Artayev

Baqtijar Karipullajewitsch Artajew ( born March 14, 1983 in Djambul, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, today Taras, Kazakhstan ) is a Kazakh boxer.

Career

Artajew began at the age of ten years with the boxes. In 1998 he was Kazakh youth champion. At the Junior World Championships in Budapest in 2000, he retired in the first round against the White Russians Pawel Sinjukowitsch. His first major international tournament in the senior, he played in 2003 at the Amateur World Championships in Bangkok. With point victories over the Australian Daniel Geale and Kim Jing -joo of South Korea, he reached the quarterfinals, where he defeated the Uzbeks Schersod Husanow 14:18.

In 2004 Artajew for Kazakhstan at the Olympic Games in Athens in part and was surprisingly Olympic champion in the welterweight ( to 69 kg). In the preliminary round, he sat down without a fight against by Willy Tankeu from Cameroon, as well as with 33:23 points against Aliasker Baschirow from Turkmenistan. In the quarterfinals, he beat the Ukrainian Viktor Polyakov by demolition in the third round. His semi-final opponent, the two-time Russian Olympic champion and defending champion Oleg Saitow, he could just overcome with 20:18 points and thus qualify for the final. There he defeated the world champion of 2001 and 2003, Lorenzo Aragon of Cuba with 36:26 points. For his performance Artajew was also awarded the Val Barker trophy as the best boxer of the Games.

At the 2005 World Championships in Mianyang China, he finished third by defeating Juan Carlos Prada from Venezuela ( 33:11 ), spas Genow from Bulgaria ( 25:17 ), Miloud Ait Hammi from Morocco ( 48:28 ) and in the quarterfinals Kahaber Zhvania from Georgia ( 32:18 ), he reached the semifinals, where he lost to the Cuban Erislandi Lara with 22:31 points. He then moved to the next higher weight class, the middleweight division.

The Asian Games 2006 in Doha, he finished in second place, he lost there in the final against the Uzbeks Elschod Rasulow with 22:32 points. In 2007 he competed in his third Chicago Amateur World Championships. He suggested there Nakani Georgi from Georgia by termination in the second round, Cho Deok -jin from South Korea by termination in the fourth round, Suriya Prasathinpimai from Thailand ( 20:7 ) and Said Rashidi from Morocco ( 19:11 ). However, in the semi-finals he lost complete surprise against Alfonso Blanco from Venezuela with 7:15 points and finished the tournament thus on a third place.

The placement was enough at the same time as qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games. In Beijing, he then sat down in the first round again against the Moroccans Said Rashidi (8:2) by and then was the reigning two-time world champion and gold medal favorites Matvey Korobov from Russia almost 10:7 beat. In the quarterfinals Artajew difference but then against the British James DeGale with 3:8 points.